Children came to “significant” harm due to chronically low staffing levels at scandal-hit mental health hospitals, whistleblowers have said.
In a third exposé into allegations of poor care at private hospitals run by The Huntercombe Group, former employees have claimed that staffing levels were so low “every day” that patients were neglected, resulting in:
- Patients as young as 13 being force-fed while restrained
- Left alone to self-harm instead of being supervised
- Left to “wet themselves” because staff couldn’t supervise toilet visits