The NHS must open a network of mental and emergency health accident units across England to try to relieve pressure on overcrowded hospital and emergency services.
Patients feeling suicidal or trying symptoms such as psychosis or mania may enter or be referred by GPS and the Police to the Services.
The units will be equipped with doctors and specialized nurses offering 24 -hour support.
Ten NHS trusts have opened units dedicated to mental health emergencies, Times has reported, and the regime should be extended to the national level as part of the NHS plan at 10 years published this summer by work.
Sir James MacKey, Managing Director of NHS England, told Times: “The crowds are not designed to treat people in the event of a mental health crisis. We must do better, which is why we have a new model of care where patients get the right support in the right frame.
“In addition to relieving pressure on our occupied A & S, the evaluation centers of the mental health crisis can accelerate access to appropriate care, offering people the help they need much earlier, so that they can stay outside the hospital.”
Last week, the Guardian reported that thousands of people with a mental health crisis have endured expectations that can go up to three days before obtaining a bed.
The results were included in the search for the Royal College of Nursing.
Based on the requests for freedom of information to the NHS trust in England and the evidence of elderly nurses, research revealed that at least 5,260 people a year in a mental health crisis are waiting for more than 12 hours for a bed after a decision to admit them – barely 1000 in 2019.
A senior nurse from the southwest of England said: “Many people will just wait and be patient. But as you can imagine, some of them are in severe crisis. They want to leave. They want to self -use. They are massively in distress and difficulty. ”
