Archive: Mental Health

Cameron speech on dementia in full

David Cameron: 'This is simply a terrible disease and it is a scandal that we as a country haven’t kept pace with it'

Read David Cameron's speech on dementia in full on politics.co.uk

Govt to close institutions in shift to community care

Hospital abuse prompts review of learning disability services

Govt dementia strategy a 'huge let down'

Call for Cabinet-level mental health focus

Mental illness "shockingly neglected by our policy-makers", Lord Layard will say.

The government needs a mental health minister at Cabinet level, an influential economist will argue later.

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NHS reforms: Ministers wavering after mental health defeat

Government was defeated over mental health in Lords

Ministers may choose not to fight a Lords defeat on the role of mental health in the government's NHS reforms.

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RCP: Mentally ill will suffer from NHS reforms

The Royal College of Psychiatrists explains its lack of support for the health and social care bill before yesterday's amendments were released:

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Comment: X Factor preys on the vulnerable

Mark Davies is director of communications at Rethink Mental Illness.

Last weekend's X Factor exposed an extremely vulnerable woman to ridicule. That is just plain unacceptable.

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MPs more stressed say psychologists

Psychological researchers say MPs have suffered from more stress

Being in the public eye is stressful for MPs, and has got worse since the expenses scandal say psychologists.

MPs: We were mislead on dementia care

The dementia strategy is not being rigorously pursued, MPs said.

The Department of Health (DoH) has consistently failed to live up to its promises on dementia care, a frank and damaging report by MPs found today.

Sheridan calls for bridge deaths inquiry

Two teenage girls jumped from the Erskine Bridge in Renfrewshire on Sunday night.

Scottish MP Jim Sheridan has called for an inquiry after two teenage girls jumped off a bridge near Glasgow in an alleged suicide pact.

Psychotherapy profession faces calls for regulation

Regulation of mental health practitioners must be extended to help stamp out abuse, according to mental health charity Mind.

The recession is driving men mad

The recession appears to be affecting men more than women

A shocking new report by a mental health group shows the recession is causing almost 40 per cent of men to be worried or feel low

Over 65s 'denied access' to mental health services

People over 65 are commonly being denied access to the full range of mental health services available to younger patients, new research claims.

Mental health sentences 'unhelpful'

Community sentences are not meeting their potential to keep offenders with mental health problems out of prison, a new report has claimed.

Armed forces' upward self-harm trend identified

Self-harm among members of the Armed Forces is on the rise, a study released today has concluded.

Mental health failure hitting the taxpayer

Offenders with mental health problems should not go to prison

Failure to provide adequate help to offenders with mental health problems is actually costing the taxpayer money, a report revealed today.

Govt dementia strategy a 'huge let down'

The government's National Dementia Strategy for England has been described as a "huge let down" by the country's leading dementia research charity.

Tension over police entrance powers

Police could be given powers to enter the homes of people suffering mental health problems

Plans to allow police greater rights of entry into the homes of people with mental health problems are meeting opposition in the form of mental health service users themselves.

Recession ruining Britons' mental health

Mental health problems are on the rise as more people struggle to deal with the effects of the economic crisis, a new survey reveals.

Patients forced to undertake treatment

Patients with mental health problems will be forced to undergo treatment or be returned to hospital by health practitioners.

Five year delay in child violence cases

Revelations of 5 year delays in human rights cases, some of which include violence towards children, were met with anger by MPs and lords on the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights today.

Recession pressures 'will increase mental health demand'

Debt, homelessness and unemployment will increase demand for mental health services, according to Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb.

Prisoners better protected than mentally ill

Patients in psychiatric hospitals need to be given the same 'right to life' as prisoners, civil liberties group Liberty said today.

Britain 'can improve its mental health'

"Substantial scope" to improve mental health

A government-sponsored thinktank has called on ministers to address the "substantial scope" existing to improve Britons' mental health.

Big increase in alcohol-based mental health problems

The number of psychiatric inpatients for drugs and alcohol problems has increased by 29 per cent since 2003.

One in five MPs has had mental health problems

Mentasl health is still taboo in Westminster, according to the report

One in five MPs has had mental health problems, a survey has revealed.

Thousands more therapists as doubts cast on anti-depressants

Govt to fund 3,600 more talking therapists

More than 3,500 therapists will be made available to help people with depression and anxiety after it emerged anti-depressant medication does not benefit many sufferers.

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