Young women tell their stories from years spent on an adolescent psychiatric ward - a place supposed to make them better, but which they say failed them and left them traumatised.

Patients who were teenagers when they were admitted to Skye House, a specialist NHS unit in Glasgow, told BBC Disclosure some nurses called them "pathetic" and "disgusting" - and even mocked their ...

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A Lancet study reveals a 65% increase in the number of children and young people being admitted to general acute medical wards in England because of a mental health concern between 2012 and 2022.

A mentally ill man killed his neighbour with a sword after being wrongly diagnosed with an alcohol disorder and subsequently discharged from psychiatric hospital. Abdul Khan stabbed father-of-two ...

Wards at the mental health facility at the centre of an abuse scandal have been criticised by watchdog inspectors, with concerns raised over the safety of patients. Care Quality Commission (CQC ...

The number of children being admitted to acute hospital wards due to concerns over their mental health has increased by almost two-thirds in a decade, according to a study. The rise was particularly ...

Wards at the mental health facility at the centre of an abuse scandal have been criticised by watchdog inspectors, with concerns raised over the safety of patients. Care Quality Commission (CQC) staff ...

The number of children being admitted to acute hospital wards due to concerns over their mental health has increased by almost two-thirds in a decade, according to a study. The rise was ...