People with disabilities to lose billions worth of support by 2018
Up to 3.7 million people with disabilities are set to be affected…
Mental Capacity Act still not well understood, CQC says
There is still a widespread lack of understanding of the Mental Capacity…
Smoking often ignored as issue in mental health treatment, report finds
Much of the lower life expectancy in people with mental health problems…
Number of schoolchildren with mental health problems rising, survey says
The number of children and young people in school with behavioural, emotional…
Equal treatment for physical and mental health – a goal that has to be achieved
A report out today makes recommendations designed to achieve parity in our…
Report outlines how to achieve parity between mental and physical health
More should be done to ensure mental health treatments are on the…
Regulators call for services to collect data on children of parents with mental health problems
Social care regulators Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have called…
Call for CCGs to “learn from past mistakes” in mental health funding
Anxiety UK has called for the new GP-led clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)…
Government funds roll out of tablet computers to selected therapists
Tablet computers are to be rolled out to selected therapists across England…