Full story at DevonLive 20 December 2017
Mental health patients in Devon are still being inappropriately sent hundreds of miles away for treatment because of a lack of locally available beds.
Latest figures from the NHS have revealed 100 mental health patients in the county with acute needs were subject to out-of-area placements between August and October this year.
That means they were sent to a unit outside the catchment area of their mental health service in order to receive the inpatient treatment they needed.