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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Vulnerable children kept waiting hundreds of days for mental health treatment

Children face desperate delays for mental health treatment with waits of hundreds of days for vital help.

Grim figures show that vulnerable kids are facing months in limbo to get help for mental health conditions on the NHS.

One young person had waited 1,512 days to get support as of August 2022 in the Norfolk & Waveney ICB area, while another had a wait of 1,113 days in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as of June.

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