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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joseph Draper

Patients ‘waited millions of hours’ for mental health care in A&E

PA Wire

Patients suffering with mental health issues were left waiting more than 5.4 million hours in A&E last year, according to figures obtained by the Labour Party.

The party said it amounted to a total delay in 2021/22 across England of 624 years and showed mental health sufferers were being “left to languish in emergency departments”.

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