Our mentally ill daughter was left to die

Because of the inadequacies of the local CAMHS, she and many other teenagers were and continue to be placed in totally inadequate inpatient “care” a long way from family and friends.It was only because of the expertise of the paramedics who attended the scene and the skills of the trauma unit at the local hospital that she survived, albeit with a raft of ongoing and life-changing medical complications.• Bev Humphrey (The underfunding of the NHS is almost conspiratorial, 16