Thousands of mentally ill people are being forced to have inpatient treatment miles from home despite a Government pledge to end the practice, a royal college has warned. The Royal
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A mother who killed her newborn son by smothering him with cling film has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail. Ineta Dzinguviene, 38, was sentenced by Lady Poole at
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A paranoid schizophrenic who killed three elderly men but was cleared of murder by reason of insanity has taken legal action after trial jurors raised concern about “failings in care”,
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The grandmother of a five-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at his home has pleaded guilty to his manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. Warwick Crown Court was told
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A new national phone line for people who require urgent mental health support is being launched across Wales. The NHS “111 press option 2” for mental health is available 24
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A woman has admitted to killing her newborn baby with cling film after she was wrongfully convicted of his murder. Ineta Dzinguviene, 38, pleaded guilty to one charge of culpable
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A joint fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is to be held into the deaths of two young people who took their own lives while serving sentences at a young offenders institution.
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Alarm has been expressed at the prospect of Metropolitan Police officers not attending emergency calls if they are linked to mental health incidents. The force’s commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has
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The father of a seven-year-old girl who was killed by a paranoid schizophrenic Albanian woman believes if the Home Office had done its job she would not have been in
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The Princess of Wales has praised as inspirational a new “anxiety toolkit” developed by a leading mental health charity after collaborating with schoolchildren. Kate (pictured) visited the Anna Freud Centre
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