A report by the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group On Prison Health yesterday (7 November) called for a “massive investment” in prison mental health care…
Report reveals that mental health services are still lagging behind
The Healthcare Commission has this week (October 30) published its annual State of Healthcare Report which focuses for the first time on the experience of patients…
Employers want more support to recruit staff with mental health problems
According to the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), the UK Government’s efforts to get one million incapacity benefit claimants back to work could fail unless employers are given more support in recruiting and retaining staff with mental health problems…..
Experts debate schizophrenia label
Scientists speaking on the eve of World Mental Health Day have called for the term schizophrenia to be scrapped…
Mental ill health costs Welsh employers over £292m
According to employment charity Shaw Trust, more than 3.3 million sick days in Wales are caused by mental health problems…
“Catastrophic failings” a factor in Bronllys suicide
At the conclusion of an inquest into the death of 26-year-old Sylvan Money at Bronllys Hospital in January 2004, the coroner has announced that neglect was a factor in the suicide, and that there had been “catastrophic failings of systems and individuals”…
Survey reveals ‘unpleasant’ state of mental health wards
A survey by mental health charity Mind has found that 56 per cent of people who had recently stayed on a mental health ward rated the ward as unpleasant or very unpleasant….
Stone Report published
The Report into the homicide of Lin and Megan Russell in Kent in 1996 was published today…
Government comes under fire as it reveals plans to “protect mental health patients from the risk of hurting themselves or other people”
The Department of Health announced two programmes of work last week (Friday 15 September) which they say aim to protect mental health patients from the risk of hurting themselves or others….
Going to work is good for you
According to a professor from Cardiff University, being out of work is as bad for you as smoking 400 cigarettes a day…