Mentally ill Children

Question 1

Headline?

Answer 1

Mentally ill children sent hundreds of miles for care

Question 2

Who’s affected?

Answer 2

Children and young people with serious mental health problems

Question 3

Problem?

Answer 3

being separated from homes up to 285 miles despite a pledge to end the practice

Question 4

Reason?

Answer 4

Bed shortages in some areas

Question 5

Impact?

Answer 5

Frightening for the children, reduces the chances of their recovery and increases the risk they will harm themselves

Question 6

The number of children admitted to a non-local bed 2017/18?

Answer 6

1039, many cases over 100m from home

Question 7

Extreme example

Answer 7

Children from Canterbury were sent 285m for inpatient mental health care, also Cornwall (258m) and Bristol (243m)

Question 8

Where is Canterbury?

Answer 8

Kent

Question 9

Fact involving bed shortages

Answer 9

In 119/195 NHS clinical commisioning groups, at least patient u18 was sent out of the area for care

Question 10

What has NHS England pledged in response?

Answer 10

150-180 more beds for mental health inpatients

Question 11

The argument against the NHS’s inaction in response to this

Answer 11

24% fall in the number of young people sent out of area from 1365 in 2016-7

Question 12

Who is the shadow minister for mental health?

Answer 12

Barbara Keeley

Question 13

How did B.K. obtain these figures which revealed “a national scandal”?

Answer 13

FOI Act

Question 14

What did B.K.s FOI uncover?

Answer 14

1. 66 CCGs - 1 in 3 - sent u18s on an out-of-area placement at least 100m away last year.
2. Patient from Hertfordshire was placed 316m from home 2015-6, the longest recorded distance in 3 years.
3. Young people from 25 CCGs - 1 in 8, have had to receive inpatient care at least 200m from home in the past 3y

Question 15

What does CCG stand for?

Answer 15

Clinical Commisioning Groups

Question 16

What is the length of the GB island?

Answer 16

874m (1,407km) by road

Question 17

How is the length of GB measured?

Answer 17

From John o’Groats (NE) to Land’s Ends (SW)

Question 18

When were CCGs created?

Answer 18

2012 following the Health and Social Care Act

Question 19

When did they replace Primary Care Trusts?

Answer 19

April 2013

Question 20

What are CCGs?

Answer 20

Membership bodies, with local GP practices as the members;
Led by an elected governing body made up of GPs, other clinicians including a nurse and a secondary care consultant, and lay members

Question 21

What are CCGs responsible for?

Answer 21

Responsible for approximately 2/3 of the total NHS England budget; or £75.6 billion in 2018/19;
Responsible for commissioning healthcare including mental health services, urgent and emergency care, elective hospital services, and community care.
Responsible for the health of populations ranging from under 100,000 to 900,000, although their average population is about a quarter of a million people.

Question 22

Give an issue facing families with out-of-area mental health services

Answer 22

paying for accommodation and travel to visit their family member

Question 23

Specific CCG examples changing its bed stocks

Answer 23

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG hoped to increase beds from 10 to 32 and Cornwall hoped to add 14 new beds