New mental health unit opens in Downpatrick
A new specialist mental health unit within Lecale Lodge Care Home, Downpatrick, has officially opened. The scheme is a partnership project with the South Eastern Health and Social Care (HSC)
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Government back-to-work schemes damanging mental health sufferers
Mental health charity Mind is calling for all people with mental health problems to be taken off mainstream Government back-to-work schemes and moved onto a specialist programme. Research from the
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New chair for NI suicide prevention group
Mr Conor McCafferty has been appointed to the position of Chair of the Suicide Strategy Implementation Body for a term of three years. Speaking about the appointment, Health Minister Jim
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New card scheme helps vulnerable keep safe in Wales
A new registered card scheme to help people with learning disabilities or a mental health condition has been launched in Wales. South Wales Police, Learning Disability Services and Mencap Cymru,
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Mental Health campaign to launch in Northern Ireland
The Public Health Agency’s (PHA) new mental health campaign is urging people who are feeling low to talk to someone they trust. Almost one in five people in Northern Ireland
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CYP mental health support should be available online – Lamb
Young people experiencing mental health problems should have access to therapy online, the care minister has said, as he warned that GPs must not put patients on anti-depressants as a
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CQC unveil new inspection plans for mental health trusts
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published information on every Mental Health NHS trust in England to show the public how it decides which services it will inspect next and
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OU Professor to lead International study on links between diabetes & depression
Professor Cathy Lloyd, from the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University, is leading new research into links between diabetes and depression. INTERPRET-DD (the International Prevalence and
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26% of Scots have had mental health issue
More than a quarter of people have experienced a mental health problem, and nearly half of people would not want other people to know if they had a mental health
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NI Minsiter praises suicide prevention initiatives
Northern Ireland Health Minister Jim Wells has said that early intervention for positive mental health and wider measures to improve the quality of life are undoubtedly part of the long-term
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