Exclusive: Children as young as three in emergency departments for mental health problems, data obtained by Labour reveals
Children suffering a mental health crisis spent more than 900,000 hours in A&E in England last year desperately seeking urgent and potentially life-saving help, NHS figures reveal.
Experts said the huge amount of time troubled under-18s are spending in A&E was “simply astounding” and showed that NHS services for that vulnerable age group were inadequate.
