Catch up with the most recent episode of Panorama from Monday, 26 October 2015 at 8.30pm on BBC One. Available to watch online on BBC iPlayer.
Britain’s Mental Health Crisis – Tonight’s episode sees Panorama investigate one of the UK’s largest frontline mental health trusts. With funding cuts drastically reducing bed numbers, Panorama follow the teams through their daily decision making of who to let in and who send home. It films the nurses as they deal with the suicidal, aggressive and the isolated in the community and hear how the system is so overloaded and other support services so decimated that staff feel they often struggle to meet all their patients’ needs.