Experts say it was the wrong place for the 16-year-old, but she had nowhere else to go.
An autistic girl aged 16 spent nearly seven months in a busy general hospital due to a lack of suitable children's mental health services in England.
The teenager, called Molly, spent about 200 days living in a side-room of a children's ward at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. It is not a mental health unit. The National Autistic Society says it is hearing from hundreds of autistic people who cannot get the support they need. For nearly a year, I've been speaking to Molly and her parents. Through the many emails, phone calls, video meetings and visits I've followed the frustrating fight they've faced to try to get Molly the right support.When I first sat talking to Molly in the kitchen of her family home last August, she had already spent 90 days on the children's ward of the general hospital because there was no support available elsewhere.
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