BBC1’s news magazine programme The Politics Show this week publicised the exclusive interview given by Health Minister Edwina Hart to Hafal’s quarterly journal Mental Health Wales and in particular to comments made by the Minister pointing to imminent and major change to the NHS in Wales…
Hafal, Wales’ principal charity for people affected by severe mental illness, today welcomed moves led by the Assembly to devolve mental health legislation from Westminster to Cardiff…
Hafal – Wales’ principal charity for people with severe mental illness and their carers – celebrated the 15th annual World Mental Health Day on October 10 at the Senedd, home of the National Assembly for Wales, where two of the charity’s key new publications were launched by Health and Social Services Minister Edwina Hart and Jonathan Morgan, the Shadow Minister…
Health and social services minister Dr Brian Gibbons welcomed mental health service users as well as representatives of statutory and voluntary sector organisations to the Senedd on Tuesday to celebrate World Mental Health Day…
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has unveiled plans to set up a new Standing Commission on Carers…
Britain’s unpaid carers save the country £87 billion a year, according to new research from the University of Leeds…
Research undertaken by the World Health Organisation (WHO) suggests that depression is a more damaging illness than other chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis and asthma…
The first human trial of a new type of schizophrenia drug has yielded promising results, according to researchers…
Researchers claim there is an urgent need to address mental health issues associated with pregnancy and childbirth…
Two leading psychiatrists writing in the British Medical Journal have sparked a debate over whether too many people are being diagnosed with depression…
