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There can be no clearer illustration of the abject failure of the Tory-led coalition's competitive market in healthcare than the disaster facing mental health services.
Over the last few months the scale of the problem has been more fully revealed, not least the growing gap between the dwindling capacity of the system to deliver care and the growing need - worsened in many cases by this mean-spirited government's brutal cuts in benefits, the bedroom tax and refusal to tackle the problem of affordable housing, all of which take a toll on mental health.
Budgets for mental health in the NHS are not simply frozen, like budgets for physical health needs, but - for the first time in a decade - they are actually falling year by year as health bosses inflict cuts where they feel the media will not pay heed.
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