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Patients going to A&E because they were having a mental crisis had to wait three weeks for a bed at one of England’s busiest hospitals, it has been revealed.
They had to stay in a short stay area with no natural light at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital because of a shortage of mental health beds.
A Government inspection dated April 26 to 27 found the patients stayed in the side rooms for an average of 52 hours before being moved on.
But some had to stay in the area — which had no TV or radio and only had a toilet and basin available — for two to three weeks.
The NHS says patients in a mental health crisis ‘might think about suicide’ or ‘experience hallucinations and hear voices’.
It comes amid a crisis in casualty departments, with dozens of patients with physical problems forced to wait two days for a bed at one of England’s busiest hospitals.
A shocking 865 people waited longer than a day to be admitted after showing up at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust’s emergency departments in April and May.
Of them, 89 endured waits of at least 48 hours for a bed during the same time period.
And last weekend, a sign put up in A&E at Royal Bolton Hospital, run by Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, warned of waits of ’40+ hours for facts a bed’.
The NHS is currently battling its busiest summer on record with pandemic backlogs, Covid staff absences and ongoing handover delays.
Emergency wait times have hit record levels across England, with latest data showing 12-hour waits are increasingly becoming more regular.
Mental health patients have been forced to wait up to three weeks in an emergency department at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, a Care Quality Commission has revealed
Some 89 patients were left stranded waiting for a bed for more than 48 hours in A&Es run by Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust in April and May.Pictured Bodmin Hospital, which is run by the trust
Some 22,034 people had to wait more than 12 hours in A&E departments in England in June from a decision to admit to actually being admitted, NHS England said.The figure is up from 19,053 the previous month, but still below a record of 24,138 in April, which was the highest for any calendar month in records going back to August 2010
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