Improving mental health services are among the Welsh Government’s key priorities over the next three years, Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford announced today as he launched the formal consultation
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More than a quarter of adults have been diagnosed with a mental illness at some point during their lifetime, with a fifth reporting depression, figures show. New data from the
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More than £54m will be made available to improve access to mental health services, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday. This additional investment will improve access to psychological therapies for
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There is strong evidence to suggest that working without a plan is less effective than working with one and that, where plans are formed in collaboration with the young person,
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David Cameron has launched an “all-out assault on poverty” with a sweeping package of social reforms including measures to boost mentoring, improve mental health services and flatten “sink estates”. The
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A national public investigation is “now needed” into the unexpected deaths of mental health and learning disability patients, Labour has argued. Shadow minister for mental health Luciana Berger told MPs
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The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) has published the findings of its Review of Eating Disorder Services in Northern Ireland. During the review, RQIA held a series of focus
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New research at Ulster University has uncovered a pressing need for suicide prevention work to specifically target people in Northern Ireland who have difficult life experiences. In the first study
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Older people should be encouraged to join choirs, read to young children in schools and learn to use the internet, a watchdog has said. In new guidance aimed at increasing
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A new agreement to improve the system of care and support for people in a mental health crisis has been signed by the Welsh Government, police forces, the NHS, councils
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