Exclusive: 376 hours A&E waits for crisis-struck mental health patients

Adults and children in urgent need of mental health treatment face hundreds of hours waits in "environments that will make their symptoms worse," senior NHS source says.

Adults and even children with pressing mental health concerns are waiting for days in England’s A&E departments before they receive appropriate care, The Lead can reveal. 

Although most are admitted, transferred, discharged or leave within 12 hours, freedom of information requests disclose some patients are waiting far longer.

Of 66 acute trusts that resp…