Career Profile – Mental Health Nurse
If you’re a good communicator and want to help people with mental health problems, a job in mental health could be perfect for you. Mental health nurses work in hospitals
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Tag: Mental Health
New City Hall report reveals London’s £26bn mental health bill
High levels of mental ill health is costing London more than £26bn per year in treatment, lost productivity and costs to education services and the criminal justice system. The figure
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Mental health services ‘urgently needed’, says report
Rehabilitation services are urgently needed for people in Northern Ireland with the most severe forms of mental ill health, a report has said. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said there
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Improving Service Provision and Outcomes for People With Mental Health Problems in the UK
Reducing mental ill-health in the UK is a significant policy challenge. Mental ill-health is prevalent in the working-age population and is associated with high economic and social costs. Mental health
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Policy paper – Mental health: priorities for change
The document sets out 25 priorities for change. It details how changes in local service planning and delivery will make a difference to the lives of people with mental health
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Scotland’s mental health: Children and young people 2013
This report provides the first systematic assessment of mental health and its contextual factors for children and young people (C&YP) in Scotland. It analyses 73 indicators from the previously established
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New guidance from the Mental Welfare Commission
The Mental Welfare Commission has published revised guidance about administration of medication disguised in food or drink and includes a revised covert medication care pathway. The medical practitioner primarily responsible
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Mental health nurses to be based at police stations and courts
Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb, announces £25 million of funding to join up police and courts with mental health services. An extra £25 million of funding for mental health
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The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: privacy and respect for persons – Podcast
The continuing development of brain imaging technologies is now bringing into reach the correlation of brain activity with psychological states and traits, such as personality traits, mental health vulnerabilities, (unconscious)
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Policy Paper – Mental health dashboard
The first annual mental health dashboard gathers the best information available to show progress against the objectives set out in the ‘No health without mental health’ strategy. The dashboard provides
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