More patients than ever in south-east England are reaping the benefits of virtual wards and hospital at home innovations, new data has revealed.

Hospital admissions for eating disorders and those among girls aged 11 to 15 had particularly steep increases. View on ...

Lee Hudson, senior author of the study and clinical associate professor at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said acute medical wards were important places for caring for young people ...

Acute hospital wards are facing "real challenges", as a study showed the number of children being admitted due to mental health concerns has gone up by two-thirds in 10 years. The research, led by a ...

There was a 65% increase in the number of children and young people being admitted to general acute medical wards in hospitals in England because of a mental health concern between 2012 and 2022, ...

The number of young people admitted to general wards in English hospitals for mental health problems rose by 65% in 2012-22, researchers have found. In the study, published in Lancet Child and ...