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MPs said there has been an alarming rise in eating disorders in the past decade and there is ‘widespread neglect’ in services.

Child and adolescent mental health services have highest vacancy rates of any psychiatric specialism

Expert says treatment plans set out while patients are well should be included in Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales

Representatives from mental health organisations said that while they support the approach in principle, they were worried about its roll-out

NHS data exposing a ‘devastating explosion’ of mental illness should be a ‘wake-up call’ for the government, MPs and health leaders say

Mental and emotional health and wellbeing was the main reason children contacted the NSPCC service in 2022/23.

Response to mental health calls to be cut down to 20 to 30 per cent

Ministers said it is up to police forces in England and Wales along with healthcare boards to work out when and how to put the changes into place.

Investigation: Scores of patients in mental health units have died from physical illnesses that could have been avoided. Rebecca Thomas uncovers systemic issues in the health service that experts say are leading to the neglect of the vulnerable