Thousands of patients went missing from mental health hospitals in England last year, NHS figures show.
A total of 3,462 people who had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act went AWOL - absent without leave - from facilities between April 2018 and March 2019.A patient is defined as AWOL if they leave a treatment centre without permission, or fail to return after being allowed out on temporary leave.
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust recorded the highest number of missing patients, with 625 incidents.It was followed by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, with 190. Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of mental health charity SANE, said:"We are increasingly concerned at the number of patients across the country that go missing for one reason or another, particularly those who become acutely ill without their medication and who can become a risk to themselves and others.
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