Mental health services 'understaffed and overcrowded'

And here's another shortcoming.

The outgoing president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists says that failing psychiatric wards are discharging sick people back into society who remain a risk to themselves and to others.

There is a "huge, massive problem" of depleting numbers of mental health doctors in the UK because not enough British medics are choosing to train as psychiatrists and visa restrictions prevent foreign doctors filling the gap.

A survey by the royal college found that 14% of consultants' posts in the UK were either unfilled or filled by a locum, and an additional 209 consultants intended to retire or resign soon.