In a report published today, the Children, Young People and Education Committee at the National Assembly has raised serious concerns about services for young people with mental health problems in Wales. These concerns were raised in response to evidence from young people and their parents during the Committee’s inquiry into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
The Centre for Mental Health and Risk is calling for people to provide accounts of their experience of mental health care – and make suggestions for topics of study. These topics may be taken forward as part of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, a UK-wide study of suicide and homicide by people in the recent care of mental health services and the sudden unexplained death of psychiatric in-patients.
Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board is calling for artists and makers to submit work for the New Adult Mental Health Unit (AMHU) being built at University Hospital Llandough. Artworks submitted are selected by a panel of people, qualified to assess the suitability of the work for display in the AMHU in context of the collection as a whole.
Bipolar disorder is associated with higher rates of physical illness, according to a new study by the Bipolar Disorder Research Network team, which includes the National Centre for Mental Health’s Professor Nick Craddock, Professor Ian Jones and Dr Liz Forty.
As part of its campaigning to promote choice and quality in treatments for mental illness, Welsh mental health charity Hafal has launched a new guide to treatments designed to give service users and carers key information on both psychological therapies and medications.
Approximately three out of four (72%) carers of those living with schizophrenia, are mainly [34%] or solely [38%] responsible for caring, placing a huge emotional and physical burden on them, according to the preliminary results of a major international survey
Hafal has been awarded £150k by Comic Relief to run a new service which aims to support people with a mental illness in the Criminal Justice System and reduce rates of re-offending in Wales.
The second National Audit of Schizophrenia – which assesses the care for people affected by schizophrenia who are living in the community in England and Wales – has been published.
Let’s Get Physical! – a 2014 national campaign run by mental health service users and carers – reached its climax today at an event held in St Fagans, Cardiff to mark World Mental Health Day. The event was attended by Mark Drakeford AM and Kevin Brennan MP as well as service users and carers from across Wales, and saw the launch of:-
Today Let’s Get Physical! reached Neath Port Talbot at an event which included a healthy eating buffet, a zumba exercise class – and a Wii Fit competition! Visitors at today’s event also had the opportunity to get key health checks in the Mobile Health Centre which has journeyed to all 22 counties of Wales during the summer.
