Aid for games addicts

CHILDREN addicted to computer games will be treated by the NHS on a screen – over Skype.

NHS chief executive Simon Stevens said: “This new service is a response to an emerging problem, part of the increasing pressures that children and young people are exposed to these days.”

Claire Murdoch, the NHS’s national mental health director, added: “Compulsive gaming and social media and internet addiction is a problem that is not going to go away when they play such a key part in modern life.”