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Christina says appointments would sometimes be cancelled as the therapist was ill, or changed jobs, leaving Mia feeling little progress was being made.

The Care Quality Commission - which is responsible for inspecting NHS hospitals - says mental health services are struggling with recruitment, including the right mix of staff, “all of which are having an impact on capacity, and the availability and regularity of appointments”.

To attend therapy or hospital appointments, Mia has to shuffle down two flights of stairs on her bottom, while her mother carries her wheelchair.

Legal advocacy groups on Friday accused Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of preemptively surrendering to Republicans with the deal he cut late Thursday night, which would forfeit four Democratic circuit court nominees in order to prioritize 13 district court nominees, further ceding appellate court appointments to Republicans.

According to Feingold, the deal “paves the way for the incoming administration to install more conservative extremist judges on powerful courts of appeal, which in the past eight years have ruled again and again against the rights of Americans on issues ranging from reproductive freedom to voting rights. All of these lifetime appointments will affect our rights for generations to come.”