Luciana Berger MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to today’s Royal College of Psychiatrists survey of junior doctors, said:

“This survey adds to an alarming picture of what is fast becoming a crisis in our mental health services.

"The Government promised that people with mental health conditions would be given the same level of service as those with physical conditions yet, on their watch, mental health beds are being cut, people are waiting too long for vital services, staff are under pressure and some of the NHS’s most vulnerable patients are being turned away from the help that they need.

"This situation cannot continue. The Government must take responsibility and urgently get to grips with this unacceptable failure before more lives are put at risk.”