Thousands of Wiltshire youngsters kept too long on mental health waiting list

When this counsellor heard an 11-year-old’s suicide plan, she wasn’t as shocked as she once might have been

As mental health data shows children being turned away from specialist care, in Dunedin, one service is seeing the fallout.

Thousands of Wiltshire youngsters kept too long on mental health waiting list

More than 2,500 children and young people in Wiltshire were not seen within four weeks of being referred to NHS mental health services in the last…

90,000 three-year waiters revealed in unpublished data

The huge numbers of very long waits for NHS mental health care have been exposed in new data – revealing figures much larger than those waiting for physical health treatment.