Mental health services are being “starved of resources”
A mental health commission led by former health minister Paul Burstow MP, which included representatives of the NHS, charities and Royal College of Psychiatrists, found mental health is underfunded by about 10% or £10bn.
‘New deal for GPs’
Speaking at the launch of the Five year forward view, a plan for NHS services in the next five years, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said primary care would see a ‘much higher proportion of the NHS budget’.
The Five Year Forward View identified expanding and strengthening primary care as ‘one of the most important’ changes that needed to take place to improve the NHS.
The document says ‘smaller independent GP practices will continue in their current form where patients and GPs want that’.
‘Inflicting burns on her head, she spent eight months in hospital in Manchester for treatment’.
It was five years ago that Archway resident Miquel Tomlinson first started hearing voices telling her to self-harm.
Aged 19 at the time, they surfaced not long after a childhood spent in and out of foster care.
Taken from her family aged just five, one of the few memories was having “gentleman callers” come into her room and demand she strip off in front of them.
Millions of UK workers fear reporting mental health conditions !
Huge numbers of UK workers are hiding mental health conditions from their employers for fear of it affecting their job, according to Friends Life.
A poll from One Poll for the insurance firm, which surveyed more than 2,000 people, found that more than 50% of all workers believe being open about a common mental health problem would damage their career prospects.
The UK working-age population is more than 38 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
So more than 19 million workers in the UK could be worried about reporting a common mental health problem to their employers.
Prioritising Mental Health Research
Many things are unprecedented about the run-up to next year’s general election, but perhaps one of the least anticipated is the prominence mental health has acquired. There has been something of a slow-motion pile-up aspect to mental health care over the past few years, as reports of the devastating effects of cuts, including chronic bed shortages and patients put at risk have kept on coming. Despite ministerial overtures lately about “parity of esteem” between mental and physical health, ask people in need of counselling or of a bed on an acute ward if provision is meeting needs and the answer will be an unequivocal “No”.
Eugene St Leger, from Bramhall, Stockport, was rushed to Stepping Hill Hospital after his sister Alexandra found him face down in a pool of blood in the family’s cellar after he cut his neck with a piece of glass
Children and young people being admitted to adult mental health wards should be a “rare event”
Children and young people being admitted to adult mental health wards should be a “rare event”, says new draft guidance.
But if it does happen, an independent advocate should be appointed for that person, says the NHS guidelines.
This follows criticism from watchdogs and a BBC Wales investigation in which experts said the service was in crisis.
The invisible struggle:
When you have a broken leg, people can see the plaster and crutches. No one judges you – in fact, they’re more likely to hold the door open.
When you have a mental illness, the signs are not easy to see. You may find doors closed to you and more than a few closed minds.
Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis and OCD were all conditions students at the Royal Northern College of Music discussed on World Mental Health Day.
One in four workers at Manchester’s mental health trust would not recommend the care to their loved ones, an official survey shows.
A quarter of staff at the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust said they would not recommend it to their friends or family, according to the first NHS Friends and Family Test.
More than a third of staff who took part in the survey also said they would not recommend it as a good place to work.
Interview with mental health advocate who worked in South East London Hospital Trust.
Discussion about the coercive nature of psychiatry, forced medication, stigma, restraint and Electro-convulsive therapy, The non-therapeutic experiences of many patients. Powerful statement.
