More than 1,100 Greater Manchester mental health patients are sent far from home for treatment last year.
For 21-year-old university student Cassandra, the isolation of the coronavirus lockdown was unbearable.
And this was despite the fact so-called ‘out-of-area placements’ were supposed to have stopped in 2021.Cassandra* was sent to a hospital 200 miles away in Norwich. “I was completely shut out from the world around me,” she says. Cassandra’s situation was made worse by the cost-of-living crisis, which meant her family was unable to visit her.
Professor Subodh Dave, the dean of the RCP, says: “We know very well that if there’s good quality care in the community, then you are preventing those admissions in the first place. Last year an internal report revealed that NHS Greater Manchester spends tens of millions of pounds less than the national average on mental health, even though the area has the sixth highest level of need.
She adds this will mean “more people are able to access specialist care close to home and receive support when recovering from an ongoing condition”.
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