http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12430754




Chances are that bed blocking will be a real problem for the NHS. It was bad enough when councils had money. Now they don't and so will cut the money anyway. My local authority actually had an unwritten policy to drive the people crazy then refer them as psychiatric patients. They tried to have me sectioned five times and when the psychiatrist spoke to me and his report said that my reactions were completely normal and I was justifiably angry at the treatment from social services. The policy was that if it was in the slightest way mental then they could absolve themselves of responsibility and it becomes an NHS problem. That will only multiply now with these cuts.