Children’s tsar savages NHS over paucity of mental healthcare

Anne Longfield says services are ‘unacceptably slow’ to improve, in open letter to chief executive of NHS England

The children’s commissioner has launched a savage attack on the head of the NHS, accusing him of denigrating research that shows an “unacceptable” lack of children’s mental health provision.

In a highly unusual move, Anne Longfield has published an open letter to Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, accusing him of ignoring young people’s experiences of the service and the frustrations of their parents.

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Continue reading... October 15, 2017 at 01:59AM