Strike-hit council struggling to deliver AMHP service

A strike-hit council is struggling to deliver an approved mental health professional service (AMHP), it had admitted.
Swindon council said that recruitment problems were affecting its ability to consistently deliver an AMHP service and it was working to address the issue.
Its admission came after trade union GMB said Swindon now had just one approved mental health professional in its emergency duty service (EDS), which is responsible for the borough’s out-of-hours AMHP service.
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