Community treatment orders don’t benefit ‘revolving door’ mental health patients, study finds
Placing mental health patients on community treatment orders (CTOs) after a period of involuntary hospitalisation does not alter the likelihood of them being hospitalised again, and their use should be…
Well Happy app aims to improve health info for young people
A new mobile app dedicated to providing easy to access information about health issues to young people has been launched.
Study aims to transform service users’ involvement in mental health care
A new study that aims to revolutionise the way in which mental health service users and their carers plan their care has been set up by universities and health trusts…
Charity launches advice pack explaining how benefit changes will affect people with mental illness
Charity Rethink Mental Illness has launched a free advice pack explaining how new changes to the benefits system will affect people with mental illness.
The khat dilemma
In this guest blog, Professor Kamaldeep Bhui discusses the health issues surrounding the plant khat, and the need for more research into its effects on physical and mental health.
Multiple genes cause schizophrenia risk, research shows
A range of genes functioning in pathways related to the transmission of signals in the brain and immunity contribute to the risk for developing schizophrenia, according to an international study.
Parity for mental and physical health has to become reality rather than rhetoric
A recent report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists outlined a series of recommendations for how mental health can achieve parity with physical health. Now it needs to happen –…
Health Minister to speak at National Conference on Policing & Mental Health
Health Minister Norman Lamb MP will be speaking at the first national conference on policing and mental health organised by leading agencies from the UK’s African Caribbean communities scheduled to…
Loneliness major problem for people with dementia, report says
More than 100,000 people with dementia who live on their own are lonely, a new report by the Alzheimer’s Society has found.
Anxiety UK fears mental health services breakdown
Cuts in frontline budgets, major reorganisation in the NHS, a lack of resources for GPs and healthcare staff who are not always understanding of anxiety and mental health disorders are…