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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

‘My time in a children’s mental health hospital left me with PTSD’

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Young women have told of their “humiliating” experiences at a group of private mental health hospitals over the last decade as part of a joint investigation by The Independent and Sky News.

The Department for Health and Social Care has now launched a probe into the allegations of 22 former patients of units run by The Huntercombe Group, which has run at least six children’s mental health hospitals, between 2012 and this year.

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