Mentally ill waiting too long in emergency

By Sarah Wiedersehn
Updated February 26 2018 - 12:07am, first published 12:05am
There are concerns mentally ill patients are waiting too long in hospital emergency departments.
There are concerns mentally ill patients are waiting too long in hospital emergency departments.

Patients with an acute mental illness have been forced to wait days in busy and overcrowded emergency departments before being admitted to hospital to receive specialist care, new research has revealed.

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