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Children and young people aged under 18 were sent up to 285 miles for mental health care during 2017-18 due to bed shortages in their local area.

Patients from Canterbury, Kent, were sent 285 miles for inpatient mental health care; those from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, 258 miles, and those from Bristol, 243 miles. Source: Obtained from NHS England under FOI by Barbara Keeley, the shadow cabinet member for mental health.