The number of distress calls made by prisoners to a mental health helpline has soared by 60% in just two years, new figures have revealed. Data obtained by the PA
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Leading psychiatrists are calling for more funding to prevent mental ill health after a poll found one in three Britons have been feeling down and depressed over the last two
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Spending more than a week in bed with Covid may be linked to an increase in the risk of long term damage to mental health, new research suggests. The study
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Scotland’s national ambulance provider has taken on 21 new mental health staff members to bolster its services. The recruitment drive has been supported by the Scottish Government’s funding of £1.6
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The number of referrals for specialist mental health care has reached a record high in England, new analysis suggests. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said that the country is coming
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Intentional self-poisoning or self-harm resulted in children being admitted to hospital 400 times per week last year, figures show. Mental health charity YoungMinds said the figures were “deeply concerning” and
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Information about the impact of isolation on care home residents cut off from their loved ones during the pandemic was “strongly out of balance” with the evidence available on the
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There is a “moral obligation” to provide more psychological support to care home staff as they continue to live with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the conclusion
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Peers have defeated the Government in demanding that powerful new care bodies have a mental health “voice”. The House of Lords backed by 162 votes to 147, majority 15, a
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Childline has launched a new mental health campaign aimed at boys, who are more than twice as likely to take their own lives as girls. The service, which is run
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