PATIENTS are experiencing “inhumane” conditions due to legal ambiguities surrounding care for patients in crisis, an investigation by a government-sponsored body found today.

The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) said that hospital staff have no power to stop A&E patients in mental health crisis from leaving while waiting for care.

The health department-sponsored body found this was leading doctors to engage in the “least harmful way to break the law” in order to keep them in the hospital.

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