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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rachel Hall

‘Buckling’ NHS fails to treat 250,000 children with mental health problems

Young girl looks out of a window
Almost three-quarters of English trusts surveyed said they had at least one young person who had been waiting more than a year to be seen. Photograph: Justin Paget/Getty Images

A quarter of a million children in the UK with mental health problems have been denied help by the NHS as it struggles to manage surging case loads against a backdrop of a crisis in child mental health.

Some NHS trusts are failing to offer treatment to 60% of those referred by GPs, the research based on freedom of information request responses has found.

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