PMBlackburn published 'Exceptional' demand on Nottingham's mental health services as...

A surge in demand for mental health crisis beds led to patients being sent around the country and taxpayers being charged for private hospital beds. It comes just a year after local health chiefs axed 42 beds at the Queen's Medical Centre for people with acute mental health problems – cutting capacity by 40 per cent. At a meeting of Nottingham City Council's health scrutiny committee yesterday councillors were told that the system had become so strained that some patients were still...