According to a new report by the Mental Welfare Commission (MWC), emergency detentions for older people have seen a sharp rise, while children with mental ill-health are increasingly not put
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New rights for people who are detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act by the police are being put forward by the Welsh Government. Under the new proposals,
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With thousands of students across Northern Ireland getting ready to begin a new term at college or university this freshers’ week, the Public Health Agency (PHA) is encouraging them to
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People who have been bereaved by suicide have used their experiences to lead the revision of a support guide to help others affected by someone taking their own life. Help
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Sir Chris Hoy let his arms rather than his legs do the work as he started a climb to launch a mental health initiative. Britain’s most successful Olympian was at
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The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme aims to provide equitable access to NICE-recommended psychological therapies to people from all sectors of the community. There is evidence that people
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Spending on mental health research needs to be doubled or tripled in the UK in order to ease the enormous burden of psychiatric and behavioural disorders on society, according to
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Following a week in Westminster where mental health has been a hot topic, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) says service users need to be placed in a central
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The NHS faces a “make or break” financial crisis within two years unless the Government orders an immediate multibillion pound cash injection, a former health minister has claimed. In a
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New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn lived up to his campaign pledge of “a new kind of politics” by crowd-sourcing his first appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of
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