Three quarters of Britons wouldn’t tell their neighbour if they had schizophrenia
More than three-quarters of people wouldn’t tell their neighbours if they had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and a third would keep it from their boss, a new survey has found.
Rethink Mental Illness CEO to join specialist mental health trust
Paul Jenkins has announced he is to leave mental health charity Rethink Mental Illness to become chief executive of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
MEPs call for new policies on schizophrenia
More must be done to foster a positive outlook and promote recovery for people living with schizophrenia, European politicians, policy advisers and healthcare professionals have said.
Memory Bank provides benefits to people with early-stage dementia
A reminiscence resource pack has been shown to have a range of benefits according to user feedback.
Cash injection to improve local youth mental health services
The Department of Education has laid out plans to invest £4 million into extending a pilot scheme aimed at ensuring children, young people and families receive accessible, quality- assured, flexible…
Internalising risk assessment model could help forensic mental health patients, paper says
Encouraging mental health patients with forensic needs to internalise their own risk assessment/decision making model could help to reduce future risk of violent behaviour, a new paper has claimed.
Dementia patients’ needs must be key in hospital design, urges TV star(1)
Older people's champion and TV presenter Angela Rippon has called on architects to put the needs of people with dementia at the heart of new hospital designs.
Animal magic
The therapeutic benefits of animals to people with mental ill health is increasingly being recognised and becoming a more common part of services; Dr Daniel Allen reports.
Richmond Fellowship and Croftlands Trust join forces
Mental health charities Richmond Fellowship and Croftlands Trust have signed a formal partnership that will enable them to strengthen and improve the services they offer.
Website celebrates successes of one-page profiles
A website has been launched that celebrates success stories of people who have used one page profiles – a tool that encapsulates important information about a person on one sheet…