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Tampon Tax will fund peer support initiatives for women with mental health problems

After being allocated £.18m from the Tampon Tax Fund generated from the…

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Mental illness diagnosis could bring greater protection from prosecution under legal shake-up

Feedback is being sought on proposed new guidance for prosecutors, concerning scenarios where a mental…

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Scotland’s Mental Health Act will be subject to an independent review

An independent review of the Mental Health Act in Scotland has been…

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Government appoints first ever National Adviser to tackle LGBT health inequalities

Penny Mordaunt, Minister for Women and Equalities, has appointed the first ever…

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Government unlikely to meet pledge to end ‘out of area’ mental health treatment next year

Individuals continue to be uprooted away from their families for mental health…

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Backdoor policies denying people with mental illnesses access to ESA

The government's department for work and pensions is sending doctors premature and misleading…

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Investing in a depressed life and how to look towards the future

Michael O'Sullivan, a CBT therapist in the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust,…

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Can I even be ill if my life is this fulfilled? – challenging misconceptions of millennial mental illness

Lisa, a mental health blogger in her mid-twenties, discusses why attitudes towards…

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Personal budgets for mental health issues: a blessing or a burden?

Over a million people will spend public funds on their own behalf…

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1 in 5 patients detained under the Mental Health Act have no input in their care plans

Throughout 2017/18, CQC (Care Quality Commission) carried out visits to mental health wards to…

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