A man who beat his mother to death with a cricket bat has been locked up in hospital indefinitely. Shanil Patel, 32, attacked 62-year-old retired hospital worker Hansa Patel (pictured)
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A coroner has expressed concern over the availability of information about suicide on the internet after a 15-year-old boy took his own life on his last day at school. Archie
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COVID-19 has disrupted the lives of children and young people beyond recognition. Throughout the pandemic, research has been underway to assess the impact on young people’s mental health, but much
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The family of a former Wales international hockey player who took her own life after suffering with chronic anxiety have said she was the “gentlest person” and “beautiful inside and
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Demand for mental health services for children and young people is pushing the NHS to “breaking point”, MPs have warned. The Health and Social Care Committee of MPs said that
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Almost 2,000 youngsters have been left waiting over a year for specialist help with mental health problems – with the total having doubled in a year, figures show. At the
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Reforms aiming to protect mental health patients from unsafe restraint have come into force following the death of a 23-year-old man. New guidance has been introduced under “Seni’s law”, in
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The parents of a vulnerable young woman who died after being refused admission to hospital have won a fresh inquest into her death as a result of NHS staff withholding
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Researchers are calling on people who have or have had a complex mental illness to take part in a survey that could help improve support and services in Scotland. Participants
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Judges asked to decide whether someone has the mental capacity to engage in sex should assess whether he or she can understand that the other person involved must be able
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