that is the best place to confine the people we are supposed to care for. it does not add up for me. at least 3,500 patients are treated within mental health rehabilitation units each year run by both the nhs and private providers. but there are serious concerns over standards of care on some wards. lissa's mental health deteriorated within the unit, she tried to take her own life 32 times within six months. i was there to be able to get better and i felt that i came away, like, worse. a bbc investigation has found some patients are placed within units for a decade or more. many experts want a greater focus on community care. there are significance amounts of money, around half a billion pounds, spent on this cohort of people. when people are supported in their community it is less expensive and obviously, from a patient experience perspective, people want to live in a community. the government says it is rolling out integrated community mental

patients sent by the nhs to stay in mental health rehabilitation units say they have been placed in unsafe environments, often far from home, with staff that are not suitably trained. some patients remain there for ten or more years. our reporter adam eley has been to meet lissa, who says her experience made her condition worse. some viewers may find her descriptions upsetting. i had a little bit of depression from when i was a kid and then, when i lost my dad, that was a tricky time. i'd gone through a lot of trauma. by 2019, lissa from coventry had been in and out of hospital struggling with her mental health. the nhs decided to centre for treatment at a specialist rehabilitation unit. i was desperate. i had no other choice. but the hospital she was sent to run by company cygnet health care was in special measures at the time. there had been two deaths in the previous 20 months. some believe the nhs should never have sent her there. i struggle with us having the knowledge that the...