The University of Wolverhampton is working with Cygnet Health Care to create a new generation of highly skilled future nurses. Cygnet Health Care, a leading independent provider of specialist mental
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Doctors should be cautious when prescribing some anti-depressants and bladder medications which may heighten the risk of developing dementia, researchers have said. A “robust” link was found between certain anticholinergic
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A paranoid schizophrenic with “psychotic beliefs” has admitted unlawfully killing a man and driving him to a police station. Sukhwinder Singh, 40, was arrested after the body of 39-year-old Harish
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The solitary confinement of children and young people in the justice system should be abolished, leading medics have said. In a joint plea to the Government, the British Medical Association
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A consultant has told an inquest that anti-psychotic drugs she prescribed to a teenager were “one of the contributing factors” in his death. Thomas Oliver McGowan, 18, who was mildly
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Pregnant women and new mothers in a quarter of the UK still cannot access specialist perinatal mental health services, according to new research. The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA), a
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A vast majority of the British public think time spent on social media is harming young people’s wellbeing, a poll suggests. Four in five people support tighter regulation of the
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Scientists have pinpointed nearly 80 genes which they believe could help explain why some people are more susceptible to depression. A team of experts led by the University of Edinburgh
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Sharon Jeffreys from the Mental Health Intensive Support Team, NHS Improvement discusses the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)’s learning disabilities guideline and how organisations can work to
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One in 20 adults in England feel lonely often or all of the time, official analysis shows. Those in their late teens and early 20s were significantly more likely to
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