The barbarity of much NHS care (sic)

‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her | Mental health | The Guardian

The numbers tell a stark story – the average admission to a mental health unit for a child in Sweden is less than 11 days. In Australia, it is less than nine days. For a child, in the UK it is 74 days

Pace the Jed Mercurio line: They used to call it the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) until they realised nobody did.