Priory opens first ‘high street’ Wellbeing Centre
A leading mental health service has launched its first therapy clinic in London’s financial district as part of a new initiative to provide greater access to treatments for anxiety, stress,…
Innovative project uses poetry to improve mental health of BME men
A trailblazing project which has supported a wide-range of black minority ethnic (BME) men in Leicester with mental health issues have brought together their service users through a poetry performance…
Developing a self-help group for people with hoarding disorder and their carers
Self-help groups can have a positive impact on people with hoarding disorder, particularly in engaging them in services. Sophie Holmes, Patrick Wolter and Clodagh Harris evaluate the impact of a…
Women with mental illness are less likely to be screened for breast cancer
Women with a mental illness, including depression, anxiety and serious mental illnesses are less likely to be screened for breast cancer, according to a new study.
Thirteen new liaison and diversion pilots announced
Thirteen new trial liaison and diversion (L&D) schemes are to launch in April 2015 to place mental health professionals in police stations and courts.
Government mental health taskforce announced
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will establish and chair a new Mental Health Taskforce involving cabinet ministers from across the coalition, it has been announced.
Litchfield recommends Work Capability Assessment stays in place
The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) should be allowed to continue because it has been modified as much as it can, and there is no…
Government pledges extra £150 million for tackling eating disorders
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pledged an extra £150 million of funding to transform the treatment of children and young people with eating disorders.
More than half of in-patients on mental health wards spend 100-plus days there, research finds
More than half of the 23,600 inpatients on mental health wards had been in hospital for 117 days or more on 31 March 2014, according to new figures.
Use of police cells for under 18s in mental health crisis should be ‘never event’ says Lamb
No child experiencing a mental health crisis should ever be taken to a police cell, Care Services Minister Norman Lamb has said.