Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and this week we will be talking about mental health provision across the UK,

whether it's in hospitals, prisons or secure units.

We'll be talking to MD, aka Phil Hammond, and Heather Mills, one of the eyes investigative reporters.

Not only that, later on we'll be talking about Dumb Britain, the part of the magazine which gives

the most inspired answers given on quiz shows.

Marcus Berkman will be telling us why the people who give the answers that end up in the column

are actually geniuses.

But first, mental health. Private has been covering the gaps in

mental health funding and provision across the country for some time now, and one of the

things covered in the magazine is the individual stories of people who are affected by these decisions.

Heather Mills is one of the eyes investigative reporters. She covers a large number of cases like this,

and one of these cases concerned a young woman called Amanda Briley.

Here's Heather.

We chose to write about Amanda Briley because it's a particularly tragic and awful case

that showed that even when a family or a young person

has managed to access mental health services

and perhaps they go somewhere where the family might think

their young relative is safe that actually they're not because

the provision even in these mental health hospitals is just not good enough. It's understaffed, under-resourced, and quite often then just not suitable for the mental health condition or illness that people have. So for example with

Amanda Briley, she was a 20-year-old severely autistic woman and she was being held

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