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Mental health patients left in ‘Victorian-era cells’ infested with vermin, Darzi report finds

THE Darzi report on the NHS which exposes the nation’s mental health crisis is “disturbing, shameful, but ultimately unsurprising,” campaigners have said.

The report found earlier this week that a lack of investment in crumbling infrastructure left mental health patients accommodated in “rooms that were constructed for a Victorian asylum.”

It detailed how 20 men had to share just two showers, and reports of mice and cockroach infestations. 

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