The former chief executive of a troubled mental health trust has been given a £190,000 payoff after she left her latest role. Katrina Percy’s role leading Southern Health had become
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Internet trolls who create derogatory hashtags or post humiliating photoshopped images online could face prosecution under new legal guidelines. Social media is to be more stringently policed after the Crown
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More than half of young people who experience stigma due to mental health problems say their own friends are the ones who bully them. A new poll of more than
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A former carer at a Catholic children’s home has been found to have been part of a sadistic and vindictive regime of abuse involving nuns, priests and a paedophile Scout
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have made an impassioned plea for society to recognise that mental health problems are suffered by all and the sooner everyone
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High blood pressure – especially in middle age – is linked to dementia, the American Heart Association (AHA) has said in a statement. A review of existing studies led AHA
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Significant numbers of people with learning disabilities, particularly very young adults, remain inappropriately incarcerated in English hospitals, say researchers. That is despite Government targets, published in the wake of the
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Nursing leaders have warned that the NHS “would not cope” without staff from abroad, as new figures suggest the number of EU nationals joining NHS hospitals has soared. Around one
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The National Probation Service, which manages higher-risk offenders, has been hit by “chronic” staff shortages in Kent, a watchdog has warned. The performance of the service in the county was
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People with mental health problems who are cared for by community crisis teams are far more likely to kill themselves than those treated in hospital, research shows. Some 200 suicides
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