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MYSTERIOUS: 2 - What They Never Told You

Mental health patients waited last year in A&E for ‘over 5.4m hours’

Data was obtained through freedom of information requests to NHS acute trusts

The Independent UK

Mental health patients ‘waited over 5.4m hours in A&E last year’

The data was obtained through freedom of information requests to NHS acute trusts.

The Independent UK

Tory speechless as NO ONE in Question Time audience raises hand to support Rwanda plan

Health minister Helen Whately appeared flustered after BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce asked if anyone supported the government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda and no one put their hand up

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Here's who's on Question Time as show is broadcast from Exeter

THE SNP’s deputy Westminster leader is set to appear on Question Time tonight as the show is broadcast from Exeter.

The National (Scotland)

'Everyone knows this is a crisis' - Tyneside MP highlights shocking mental health stats and impact on NHS

Liz Twist MP is passionate about mental health and suicide prevention

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Overstretched NHS workers take six million sick days because of poor mental health

Labour’s Dr Rosena Allin-Khan warned hard-working staff including doctors and nurses are facing extra pressures as hospitals struggle with record waiting lists

Daily Mirror

England’s ambulance crews spend 1.8m hours a year on mental health callouts

Exclusive: Labour says ‘alarming’ NHS figures show rising number of people on waiting lists for support reaching out to 999 in a crisis

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

The figures, taken from FOI requests sent to health boards across the country, equated to a total delay of 624 years over the 12 months.

The Independent UK

Labour says 'bold' mental health plans are 'deliverable' as thousands struggle to get help

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan visited Birkenhead to talk about Labour's plans to provide mental health hubs in every community

Liverpool Echo

Prison officers 'at breaking point' as sick leave for mental stress surges

The Prison Officers Association blames the issue on poor pay and jails being overcrowded, violent and short-staffed. National chair Mark Fairhurst wants trained counsellors employed on-site at every prison

Daily Mirror

Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid tells Terry Christian to 'stop talking' as he kicks off about MPs' extra jobs

Susannah Reid and Richard Madeley were discussing the topic of MPs having second jobs

Wales Online

Terrified Ukrainian boy, 11, begs Rishi Sunak to let him join his dad in the UK

The family applied for Boris Johnson's Homes for Ukraine scheme last September and is one of 9,400 cases caught up in Home Office delays and red tape

Daily Mirror

Huge rise in number of police officers taking sick leave due to mental health issues

Police officers in England took more than 730,000 sick days last year - up from 320,000 in 2012/13. They're having to cope with 'horrific cases' and 'austerity and budget cuts', says one police federation boss

Daily Mirror

Children in mental health crisis spent more than 900,000 hours in A&E in England

Exclusive: Children as young as three in emergency departments for mental health problems, data obtained by Labour reveals

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Evening Standard

Senior Labour MPs at odds over private sector use in NHS

Shadow health minister Rosena Allin-Kahn, who also works as an A&E doctor, calls for more NHS staff

Evening Standard

Wandsworth Prison went without mains water supply for 8 days

MP calls for infrastructure upgrade after Wandsworth prisoners were left without mains water for eight days

The Guardian - UK

Ministers may order inquiry or review over English mental health care failings

Decision due soon, MPs told, as campaigners press for ‘full and fearless’ public inquiry

The Independent UK

Public inquiry under consideration to respond to NHS mental health care failures

Health minister Maria Caulfield said a decision will be taken in the coming days regarding a public inquiry, after the deaths of three teenage girls.

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Manchester Evening News

Minister apologises 'unequivocally' and hints at inquiry into mental health unit 'abuse'

"In this case we've seen, in my view, some of the most horrific abuse"

The National (Scotland)

Scotland 'deserves better than Nicola Sturgeon', Labour MP claims

A LABOUR MP has claimed that the “Scottish people deserve better than Nicola Sturgeon”.

Daily Mirror

One million people with mental health problems ignored by NHS in 12 months

One patient said she only survived because her parents used £11,000 of their savings to put her in private care after was turned away from A&E after a suicide attempt

Evening Standard

Child with mental health condition faces 79-hour A&E waiting time

Children with mental health conditions attending hospital face days long waits in A&E, data revealed on Wednesday.

Liverpool Echo

Labour minister claims Tories not prioritising mental health 'crisis'

The Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health told the ECHO she fears for the winter months

Daily Mirror

Matt Hancock's most awkward on-air blunders and gaffes as he hosts LBC

Matt Hancock is hosting LBC's popular mid-morning show today. As he gets set to take to the airwaves, here's some of his worst on-air blunders and awkward moments

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner return questionnaires to Durham police

Labour leader and deputy have promised to resign if found to have breached Covid rules by eating curry and drinking beer at event

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