BBC News : Mental health patients travelling up to 79 miles for bed ‘not acceptable’ (May 2, 2015)

BBC News : Mental health patients travelling up to 79 miles for bed ‘not acceptable’ (May 2, 2015) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31448670

This is an important article.  Another snapshot of the state of mental health ward care, curiously having similar problems to the prison service.  However, our local provider in Leicestershire is cited in the following table.  I knew there was a problem, but thought this had to be a typo.  Apparently Trusts save money by shutting wards and cutting beds, laying off therapists, I think not, because they have to be pay a lot more when they send them to private or public unit someone else in the country.  No wonder the Crisis Teams are such bastards.  "No beds" they sigh, like the outpatient is a big problem for them, "We'll have to ring around". Gatekeepers to shitty sardine cans.