Health and Social Services Minister Edwina Hart AM has welcomed the National Assembly for Wales’ Health Wellbeing and Local Government Committee’s “Inquiry into Community Mental Health Services”.
A report by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) into a homicide committed by a man with paranoid schizophrenia has concluded that the incident “could not have been predicted”.
The Welsh Assembly Government has been given powers to introduce new laws to support carers after Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas AM’s Carers’ Legislative Competence Order (LCO) received Royal Approval this week.
Mental health services in Wales are still failing many children and young people, despite some improvement in recent years, a report published jointly today by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, the Wales Audit Office, Estyn, and Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales suggests…
Wales Mental Health in Primary Care (WaMH in PC) will host a Practitioners Network Meeting on Thursday 19th November 2009 at the Village Hotel, Swansea.
Fresh plans to reduce suicide and self-harm have been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government following extensive consultation on a draft action plan published last year. The national action plan, ‘Talk to Me’, aims to raise awareness of suicide and self-harm and encourage people to talk more about their problems to remove the stigma that is associated with emotional and mental health problems…
Click here to read NHS Wales Chief Executive Paul Williams’ first major interview since the introduction of the new Local Health Boards on October 1st.
The National Assembly for Wales should have additional powers to introduce laws relating to mental health, say MPs in a report published today.
The Welsh Affairs Committee agrees that there is a clear need for the proposed Legislative Competence Order (LCO) on mental health and that using the LCO process is the most appropriate legislative route…
A report by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) on a homicide carried out by a mental health service user in Newport has said that proper care and treatment may have averted the tragedy.
The review has highlighted concerns in relation to the care and treatment provided to Kevin Price who attacked his former school friend James Fortey in August 2007…
Cardiff University are looking for volunteers to take part in a study into what makes some people more likely than others to develop schizophrenia.
