those are the headlines. now on bbc news, panorama. 7:7,7! 77g; ffaf: 777737 funding and there is no doubt that this is not being seen on the ground. and we investigate the human cost of what's been england's worst performing health trust. imagine waking up every day

and almost tossing a coin to go and he was the most beautiful, kind, loving son. and he sh," still he i wanted to save him.

look at this... the 39—year—old had been treated for schizophrenia for the last two decades. foundation trust, the only mental measures in the history of the nhs. i begged. i begged the trust to help him, but they thought he was living well, he was, you know, managing. but i knew that he wasn't. i knew that he would just get iller and iller and iller. and he died.

when they came to tell me, i was not surprised. i was expecting it. the nhs produces very little national data about the performance of our mental health services. so we decided to do some research of our own. they're recorded when there's no obvious sign of a natural cause of death, so they can include suicide, accidental overdoses, and also neglect. we have results from 33 of the 57 trusts. the data is complex because different parts of the country collect it in slightly different ways, but what our figures show is a clear trend suggesting that unexpected deaths have risen by nearly half in the last three years.

that's 1,000 additional deaths last year in those 33 trusts alone. these horrifying figures come despite years of government pledges to prioritise mental health. to transform the way we deal with mental health problems, right across society and at every stage of life. no matter what pledges are made by central government, it's local areas that decide where to spend the bulk of the money. the difficulty is making the connection between announcements at national level and money actually showing up at local level to buy more staff, to buy more care and really for patients to see the difference. and with the whole nhs under unprecedented pressure, many areas have decided they can't afford to put it into mental health. to make ends meet, trusts are now

undertaking major restructu res. one of our concerns around mental health is just how radical many of those transformations are. to attempts—mee-