Thousands of mentally ill people are NOT being forced to have inpatient treatment miles from home in Scotland?

The Guardian today, does get round to telling us this is just about England:

More than 5,000 mental health patients have been sent at least 62 miles from home for treatment in the two years since ministers pledged to banish the “dangerous” practice.

The disclosure prompted calls for the “scandal” of out of area placements in mental health care to end, with claims that it represents “another broken government promise on the NHS”.

Chronic shortages of mental health beds have for years forced the health service in England to send hundreds of patients a month to be admitted for care, sometimes a long way from their own area.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/21/more-than-5000-mental-health-patients-sent-over-62-miles-for-treatment

The Glasgow Herald has the same story pretty much but leave the mention of England till the 12th paragraph.

The Glasgow Times does just the same.

BBC UK, England and Scotland are ignoring the story.

Surely Lisa Summers could just divide the ‘more than 5 000’ by 10 and get:

‘More than 500 Scottish mental health patients have been sent miles from home.’

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