A Tyneside MP has highlighting shocking statistics showing people in mental health crisis spend hours in North East A&Es, and how the North East Ambulance Service takes thousands of calls from those in crisis each year too.
Blaydon MP Liz Twist has hit out at the Government's failure to tackle the root causes of mental ill health, and said the system as it exists today does not work for patients - especially children and young people. Ms Twist, who also co-chairs the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on suicide and self-harm prevention, spoke out in parliament last week, and has further detailed her fears to ChronicleLive.
She spoke during a debate in the House of Commons which saw shadow mental health minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan highlight "the scale of the mental health crisis facing the country" and how patients in mental health crisis took up "more than 5.4 million hours" in A&Es around England last year.
