Faster improvement needed to improve inpatient mental health care, CQC warns
Much needs to be done to improve how psychiatric inpatient units care…
MPs vote to suspend £30-a-week cut to Employment and Support Allowance
MPs have voted unanimously to postpone a planned £30-a-week cut to Employment…
Twenty-five CCGs planning to spend less than £25 per head on children’s mental health, research reveals
Twenty-five clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have planned to spend less…
Jobseekers with mental ill health can access hardship fund after benefit sanction, government announces
Jobseekers who are homeless or have a mental health condition will now…
Charities urge government rethink on cut to Employment and Support Allowance ahead of Commons vote
More than 70 charities have signed an open letter to the government…
You don’t monitor human rights abuses you ban them – ban#taser
The recent House of Lords debate on the use of Taser firearms…
Call to end to use of police cells for people in mental health crisis
Renewed calls have been made for parliament to end the use of…
Alcohol-related dementia: under-detected, unique in profile and often partially reversible
In this guest blog to coincide with Alcohol Awareness Week, Dr Tony…
Dementia now leading cause of death in England and Wales
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are now, for the first time, the…
Community mental health services not improving, CQC report says
Mental health service users’ experiences of being cared for in the community…