Dr Guy Northover: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Chair of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“It's unacceptable that sick and extremely vulnerable young people with mental illness are being sent miles from their friends and families, quite often for months on end, because the treatment they need is not in the local area. We know that young people who are sent further away from home are likely to have a longer inpatient stay, and we know that discharge is more difficult because it's harder to link in with local community services.”
What Dr Guy Northover has said
“What this is basically showing, as far as I can see, is that you are more likely to end up in a mental health crisis as a child or young person if you are not in school than if you are in school.”
chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' child and adolescent faculty · Mental health · 27 Aug 2026 · School absence a big factor in child mental illness in England, data shows ↗
Where Dr Guy Northover has been quoted
- Riverside unit's continued closure sees teens sent far from homebbc.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- School absence a big factor in child mental illness in England, data showstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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