Every month patients are sent away from their home for mental health treatment because there are no local beds available for them. Inappropriate Out of Area Placements aren't decreasing despite the government's plan to eliminate them by 2020/21.
You can read the full story here.
This story on Birmingham Eastside focusses on patients sent out of the area by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Monthly data on Out of Area Placements is published by NHS Digital.
Take a look at the analysis the article is based on.
- Inappropriate Out of Area Placements in England
- Inappropriate Out of Area Placements: Top five trusts in October 2020
- Inappropriate Out of Area Placements: Top five trusts over the past four years
- Inappropriate Out of Area Placements in Birmingham
- Inappropriate Out of Area Placements: Where is BSMHFT sending their patients?
- Inappropriate Out of Area Placements in Birmingham: Distance
All visualisations were created with Flourish.