Published on 12, July, 2020
Very sad news story about a young woman 'trapped' in my own local general hospital, Queen Alex.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65531686
The government says its ambition is to halve the number of autistic people and those with a learning disability in mental health hospitals by March 2024. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson added that this is backed by extra funding and "our action plan to improve community support and reduce over-reliance on mental health hospitals".
this really made me cry today. She shouldn't be in there and she needs the kind of autistic-led eating disorder help that I saw a specialist talking about on the recent Christine Mcguiness documentary.