A GP has spoken of her anger at the “goddamned disaster” that is the mental health system, recounting her experience with a facility which discharged her acutely suicidal patient without telling her.  

Her account, which merged a small number of different patients into one story, was posted on Twitter beginning with the words: “I’m tired, a thread.” 

At a time when one leading government advisor – psychiatrist and former Mental Health Commissioner Professor Ian Hickie – has attempted to savage the work done by GPs, she documented the work being done in general practice necessary to stop patients falling through the cracks.

In her story which will resonate with many GPs, this is what she wrote: