Kaytlyn Hemsworth was just 19 years old when she died while a patient in the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital psychiatric unit on April 11, 2023.

These units serve as a bridge between the emergency department, general practitioners, and other hospital wards and are separate to specialised mental health wards such as eating disorder units.

There was a 65% increase in the number of children and young people being admitted to general acute medical wards in hospitals in England because of a mental health concern between 2012 and 2022, ...