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The Royal College of Psychiatrists has slammed the Government for stalling its plans to add hundreds more NHS mental health beds to help end the ‘shameful’ practice of sending severely ill patients far from home for treatment. The practice, known as out-of-area placements (OAPs), happens when there isn’t a local hospital bed for the patient to be admitted to. Allowances are made where this is for highly specialist care. The Government has pledged to end all inappropriate adult OAPs for acutely ill patients by 2021 but despite intensive efforts progress on reducing that number has stalled. On July 31, 745
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