The Western Mail has reported that “nearly half of people with mental health problems who are detained by police are being taken to cells rather than hospitals, despite guidance that this should only happen in exceptional circumstances.”
The Mental Health Foundation is undertaking a major Inquiry into the future of mental health services across the UK, looking 20-30 years ahead at what sort of mental health care and support we will need and how we might ensure it is achieved…
The benefits system is currently undergoing the biggest change for 60 years…
In his cabinet reshuffle Carwyn Jones has made Mark Drakeford the new Health Minister, replacing Lesley Griffiths (who becomes the new Minister for Local Government and Government Business). Gwenda Thomas remains Deputy Minister for Social Services…
Hafal’s National Learning Centre has launched a new guide for students which is based on the experiences of over 1000 people with a serious mental illness and their carers and has been produced as part of a groundbreaking Comic Relief-funded initiative…
This week mental health charity Together has launched a new guide offering professionals the tools to recognise and respond to the health and wellbeing needs of women offenders…
The Mental Health Wales Spring 2013 journal is out now…
Mental health charities have said that the Mental Health (Discrimination) Bill, which will pass into law after completing its parliamentary stages this week, will “put an end to archaic laws” which interfere with the rights of people with mental illness to participate in public life…
Aviva recently published the findings of its “Health of the Nation 2012” survey – a comprehensive study of GPs’ views on the UK’s mental and physical health…
Welsh mental health charity Hafal has called for psychological therapies to be more readily available to people with a serious mental illness in Wales.
