Primary school scoops mental health award
Kings Hedges Educational Federation, a primary school in Cambridge, has won the Children & Young People’s Mental Health Coalition’s Resilience and Results Competition, which celebrates the work of schools to…
Mental training can increase children’s wellbeing, study shows
Mental training that develops sustained attention to change the ways people think, act and feel could also reduce symptoms of stress and depression and promote wellbeing among schoolchildren, according to…
What will the Comprehensive Spending Review do for mental health?
In this guest blog, Paul Jenkins, CEO of Rethink Mental Illness, look ahead the Comprehensive Spending Review, and what it could mean for people with mental ill health.
People with mental ill health being held too often in custody, say watchdogs
Four watchdogs have concluded that too many people experiencing mental ill health are being detained in police custody and have called for change.
Mind calls for end to face-down restraint in mental health hospitals
Mental health charity Mind has called for the government and NHS England to put an end to life-threatening face down restraint of people with mental ill health in healthcare settings.
Is anybody listening?
Mental health services are vulnerable to cuts and changes, but when consulted on these, service users are not always being listened to, as Andrew Mourant reports.
Nominations open for Positive Practice in Mental Health awards
People working in mental health services have a month to get their applications in to the National Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards, which celebrate positive practice among professionals in…
More must be done to support women suffering from perinatal mental illnesses
In this guest blog, Sally Hogg from the NSPCC writes about the important part that health professionals play in identifying mothers at risk of, or suffering from, perinatal mental illnesses,…
Experts suggest schizophrenia ‘re-brand’ to reduce negative connotations
Mental health experts have called for a new name to be used for the condition schizophrenia as it currently conveys "an image of unreliable, dangerous lunatics".
Britons lack mental health knowledge, survey finds
Most people in the UK know more about physical conditions rather than than mental health conditions and feel more confident dealing with a physical health emergency than a mental health…