We discuss the impact this is likely to have on services and also why a particular group of senior managers are particularly demoralised.  

Also this week, as an HSJ investigation highlights the horrendously long waits faced by mental health patients waiting for an inpatient bed in accident and emergency, we ask how the health service got to this point and what can be done.

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