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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

Mental health hospitals are ‘making children worse’, leading charity warns

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Mental health hospitals for children are making patients worse, a major charity has found, as more than half of those they treat report negative experiences.

Britain’s child inpatient mental health units are being used as “holding places” for those needing treatment, and are failing to improve the mental health of those with the most severe needs, according to a report from Mind.

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