Patients ‘begging’ for help as leak reveals thousands die under community mental health services
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Exclusive: NHS figures leaked by whistleblower suggest more than 15,000 patients died in care of community mental health services in just one year – with desperate families forced to ‘beg’ for treatment from overstretched medical teams

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