It was announced in the Queen’s Speech today that a bill to amend the 1983 Mental Health Act will be part of the UK Government’s forthcoming programme.
Speaking to Parliament the Queen stated: “A bill will be introduced to provide a better framework for treating people with mental disorders.”
Hafal’s 2006 Convention on mental health recovery to be held at the Pavilion, Llandrindod Wells this Thursday (16th November) will see the launch of key projects to improve the lives of people with severe mental illness across Wales, including:….
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…
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…
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…..
Scientists speaking on the eve of World Mental Health Day have called for the term schizophrenia to be scrapped…
According to employment charity Shaw Trust, more than 3.3 million sick days in Wales are caused by mental health problems…
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”…
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….
The Report into the homicide of Lin and Megan Russell in Kent in 1996 was published today…
