CoolTan Arts self-advocacy training wins best practice award
Arts in mental health charity CoolTan Arts has been awarded ‘Best Practice…
Stronger together
Peer support is central to the implementation of recovery-focused practice and it…
Mental ill health most widespread cause of long-term work absences
Mental health conditions are the single most widespread cause of long-term absence…
Mental health organisations call for ‘parity of esteem’ for mental health to be made reality
Four mental health organisations have called on the government to make its…
Misconceptions about psychiatrists “common” among public and medical students
The general public and medical students often have misconceptions about the role…
Third of children consider suicide before 16, survey shows
Labour leader Ed Miliband has helped to launch a new online counselling…
Many people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder don’t always follow treatment regime, study finds
More than three quarters of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder admit…
Calls to improve crisis care as number of suicides by mental health patients increases
Mental health experts and charities have called for improvements to crisis care…
Breakthrough PND blood test developed by doctors
Doctors have developed the first blood test for postnatal depression in a…
NICE advice supports commissioning for self-harm
A new publication from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence…