Health Minister Edwina Hart AM has announced a new drive to bring an end to mixed sex hospital wards in Wales…
£13m youngsters’ mental health unit approved for North Wales
Health Minister Edwina Hart has given her approval to plans for a new mental health unit for children and young people in North Wales…
Carers’ Week 2008: “Carers can’t afford to be ill”
On Tuesday 10th June at the Oriel within the Senedd, Hafal and the Carers Alliance Wales hosted a one day event to celebrate Carers Week 2008. The Deputy Minister for Health and Carers Champion for Wales Gwenda Thomas AM launched the event and announced her priorities for Carers in the coming year. Jenny Randerson AM and Helen Mary-Jones AM also spoke of their support for carers in Wales.
New mental health unit for youngsters gets Assembly Government’s green light
The Welsh Assembly Government has given its approval to plans for the development of a new £22m unit for children and young people with a range of mental health conditions in South, Mid and West Wales…
Report suggests “variable” funding levels for prison mental health in England
A study into the provision of mental health services in England has been published this week by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health in collaboration with Lincoln University…
Study looks ahead at next 20 years of English mental health spending
A major new study by the King’s Fund into the cost of meeting mental health needs in England over the next two decades is published this week…
BBC “Week In Week Out” programme on bipolar disorder available to view on-line
If you missed the BBC Wales “Week In Week Out” programme earlier this week you can now view it on-line by following the link below…
Hafal’s spring seminar promotes recovery
Hafal, the principal Welsh charity for people with severe mental illness and their carers, this week holds a conference in North Wales entitled “What Users Want – a seminar promoting the ambitions for recovery of people with severe mental illness”…
Mental Health Bill Still on the Agenda
“My government will continue with legislation to provide a new framework for the provision of compulsory treatment of those with mental disorders.”
– Queen’s Speech, May 17th
Inquest finds “serious deficiencies” in case of Welsh psychiatric unit death
The coroner presiding over an inquest into the case of mental health patient Darren Tannahill who died after being admitted to a psychiatric unit has said there were “very serious deficiencies” in his care…
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales publishes reports on homicides
The Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) has this week published its reports following reviews of two homicides carried out by mental health service users in Cardiff and Gwent…