BMA condemns failure to stop sending mental health patients long way for treatment
BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2780 (Published 12 November 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;375:n2780
- Gareth Iacobucci
- The BMJ
The government has failed to meet its promise to stop the harmful practice of sending mentally unwell patients far from their own home for their care, the BMA has warned.
Latest figures published by NHS England on 11 November show that 1260 new patients had been inappropriately sent for inpatient care many miles from their homes in the three months to August 2021.1
This was despite a pledge to end the practice by April 2021.2
The BMA, which warned back in 2017 that the practice was “endemic,”3 noted that NHS England was not on track to meet the target even before the covid pandemic, with the number of …
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