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