The A&E where security guards deal with up to 20 mental health patients daily

Eyewitness
Eyewitness
Mental health cases at A&E reach crisis level – as waits get longer and specialised beds dwindle

A hospital boss tells Sky News his A&E staff are seeing "more and more people coming here as their first port of call". However, waiting times for these cases have risen and overnight beds in mental health units are down almost 3,700 in a decade.

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