"Shocking."

My father was admitted to A&E suffering from severe mental health issues on 12th December.

The first doctor asked him a series of questions - including, if you could harm yourself right now - would you?

My father answered yes, he would. We waited 15 hours for a bed and finally left, having given phone numbers in case of an emergency.

Horrifyingly, when my mother returned to visit my father on the same ward, she noticed he had bloody wounds on both wrists.

She was then told that my father had been able to leave his bed, wander to a tea point, pick up a sharp object (staff seemed unclear if this was a knife or scissors) and cut both of his wrists.

Nobody rang to tell us this had happened. I'm absolutely appalled that my father came to further harm whilst under the care of this hospital, having made it clear from the outset exactly what his state of mind was in terms of self harm.

Disgusting.