Unacceptable gaps in quality of dementia care, Care Quality Commission report finds
Unacceptable gaps in the quality of care of people with dementia mean it is likely they will experience poor care as they move between care homes and hospitals, a review…
Call for teacher training courses to feature emotional wellbeing to reduce long-term impact of mental ill health
Thousands of children are not achieving their potential because their emotional needs are not being recognised early enough and they don’t receive support to cope with the challenges of modern…
Loans of Reading Well Books on Prescription double in first year of scheme
Loans of self-help books from English public libraries have more than doubled since the Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme was launched in June 2013.
Building individual capacity to address mental health
In this guest blog for World Mental Health Day, Nicholas Campbell-Watts talks about a project helping to combat isolation in London.
Care for people with schizophrenia still not improving, report says
There is still a significant shortfall in the quality of some aspects of care affecting the lives of people living with schizophrenia and their carers, according to the second National…
Time to forget the label and just listen
In this guest blog for World Mental Health Day, Sandra Griffiths talks about how Time to Change is reaching out to people from African and Caribbean communities to help end…
Mental health triage team to expand across West Midlands after successful pilot
The mental health triage scheme, which sees psychiatric nurses attend to with police officers to people suspected of being mentally unwell, is to be rolled out across the West Midlands…
Homeless people with mental ill health overlooked by health services, report says
Homeless people are often left out of the planning and commissioning of healthcare services in England, despite 45% having been diagnosed with a mental health issue, a report has found.
Liberal Democrats commit to doubling of dementia research funding by 2020
Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg has pledged to double dementia research funding to £132 million per year by 2020 if put in power at next year's General Election.
Charities call for political parties to make mental health research an election priority
An alliance of mental health research funding charities has called for the next government to make the UK a ‘global leader in mental health research’.