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Mental health patients forced to travel for hospital beds
Over 5,000 mental health patients in England have had to travel for hospital beds.
More than 5,000 mental health patients in England have had to travel out of their area over the last year because of a lack of hospital beds.
Today's Sima Kotecha has been speaking to a 17-year-old girl with anorexia who has been hospitalised in Edinburgh, despite living in Nottingham.
(Image: Hospital bed. Credit: Siri Stafford)
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