article_snippet: Mental health experts have branded the practice 'shameful', adding Mental health experts highlights the fact there are not enough suitable crisis beds across the country.
article_snippet: Condemning the practice, which is seen across the country, Mark Winstanley, chief executive of mental health charity, Rethink Mental Illness, told MailOnline the situation must change. '
article_snippet: Without this urgent reform and investment, the mental health system will continue to fail people when people are at people most vulnerable.'
article_snippet: Dr Peter Carter, chief executive  of the Royal College of Nursing told MailOnline the practice is just one of the 'detrimental consequences' of severe cuts to mental health services.
article_snippet: Dr Peter Carter, chief executive  of the Royal College of Nursing said: 'Mental health trusts have had Mental health trusts budgets cut by eight per cent over the last five years, losing 1,500 beds and 3,300 nurses in the process. '
article_snippet: Given these ongoing reductions in funding resources it is no wonder that trusts are struggling to cope.
article_snippet: Mental health services are under immense pressure, not just in Swindon and Wiltshire, but across the UK. '
article_snippet: The Government promised the equal treatment of mental and physical health but this situation has illustrated just how far this equality currently is from fruition. '
article_snippet: Nurses and other mental health professionals are working tirelessly to provide Nurses and other mental health professionals patients with high standards of care, but without a rapid increase in funding, resources and understanding, some of the most vulnerable members of society will continue to be failed by the health service.'
article_snippet: The responsibility for caring for mental health patients in the county falls to the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership.
article_snippet: Mental illness accounts for 23 per cent of the total impact of ill health in the UK, but gets only 13 per cent of the NHS budget.
article_snippet: In addition mental health trusts in England have seen mental health trusts in England budgets fall by more than eight per cent in real terms over the course of this Parliament.