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Some 1.7 million patients are waiting for community mental health care – with more than 48,000 waiting more than two years to be seen

Barrage of gambling adverts likely to exacerbate addiction, as NHS in England doubles number of clinics to meet demand

Ministers said it is up to police forces in England and Wales along with healthcare boards to work out when and how to put the changes into place.

For years the gambling industry was the wild west; an unregulated frontier that profited from pain and addiction. Now the government has promised to clean up betting and gaming. But many are eager for more to be done, writes Sarah Ingram, particularly those who nearly lost everything to it

For years the gambling industry was the wild west; an unregulated frontier that profited from pain and addiction. Now the government has promised to clean up betting and gaming. But many are eager for more to be done, writes Sarah Ingram, particularly those who nearly lost everything to it

Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s national mental health lead, told MPs it will take at least two years for new guidance to be consistently implemented.

Patrick, 70, was last seen leaving a pub on Shore Street in Gourock at around 12.10am on Tuesday January 31.

Mental health lead ‘shocked’ to hear ward managers are ‘Monday to Friday people’

‘We are seeing young people dying because of failings of care,’ admits minister Maria Caufield