NHS struggling with 'long tail' of pandemic mental ill health

The number of referrals for specialist NHS mental-health care reached a record high in England by the end of 2021, an analysis suggests.

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists says the pandemic has led to unprecedented demand and backlogs and services are struggling to keep up.

There were 4.3 million referrals, for conditions such as anxiety and depression, in 2021, NHS Digital says.

Just under a quarter - 1.025 million - were for children or adolescents.

The previous two years had each seen about 3.8 million referrals.

The college said the NHS had delivered 1.8 million mental-health consultations in December 2021, as the Omicron variant of Covid-19, first identified in South Africa, spread across the UK.

But an estimated 1.4 million people were still waiting for treatment.

And hundreds of adults were being sent far from home for treatment because of a lack of beds in their area.