Shocking scale of mental health crisis among children and young people in Wales

Youngsters ‘unforgivably failed’ as 500,000 turn to A&E in mental health crisis

Nurses stressed emergency departments are ‘not the right environment for kids in crisis’. Around 500,000 children and young people in England have attended emergency departments in mental health crisis since 2019, new research has suggested. Nurses said that A&E is “not the right environment for kids in crisis”, with one speaking of “some real near misses” as distressed teenage patients wait to be seen in the same area as babies. There has also …

Shocking scale of mental health crisis among children and young people in Wales

More than 135,000 children and young people e estimated to have diagnosable mental health condition, report says, as cost of mental health problems to economy estimated at £4.8 billion each year

The worsening mental health crisis affecting children across Wales

A new report by Public Health Wales has found that more than 135,000 children and young people in Wales are estimated to have a diagnosable mental health condition

Children in mental health crises waiting THREE DAYS in A&E as cases surge and 12-hour delays triple

An estimated half a million children and teenagers have turned up at emergency departments suffering mental ill health since 2019, according to shocking new figures from the Royal College of Nursing.Exhausted frontline nurses warned vulnerable youngsters are being trapped for days in chaotic casualty wards never designed to deal with severe psychiatric distress.Some admitted children are being sedated because overcrowded hospitals have nowhere s…

500,000 children in A&E mental health crisis as system fails | The latest National and International News

Concerns have been raised about the number of children and young people attending A&E in mental health crisis (Alamy/PA) PA Media Around 500,000 children and young people in England have attended emergency departments in mental health crisis since 2019, new research by the Royal College of Nursing has revealed. The figures expose what the nursing union calls a "catastrophic system-wide failure" in youth mental health care. The RCN submitted free…