The MP for Exeter has challenged the Health Secretary over mental health services in Devon, after receiving two letters from concerned NHS practitioners.
Ben Bradshaw read the Commons extracts from a letter from an Exeter psychiatric nurse.
It said patients were being placed in 'life threatening' situations, and that some were being sent as far away as Bradford for residential care.
He's also received a letter from a clinical director at the Devon Partnership NHS Trust, who expressed disappointment that a Conservative survey on health priorities didn't even mention mental health.
The health secretary Jeremy Hunt hit back, saying Mr Bradshaw should recognise the additional investment his government had made in some areas of mental healthcare including 'talking' therapies and treatment for dementia.
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