#mentalpatient: the end of the beginning
Yesterday two retail giants were shamed and forced into taking products off their shelves by the power of people.
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Peer support in mental health care: is it good value for money?
Increasing numbers of peer support workers are now being employed in mental health services.
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Mental health: the whole picture
Community budgets that pool funding for services could dramatically improve mental health provision. This ‘whole place’ approach should be backed in the Spending review.
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What the Francis report means for mental healthcare
Originally posted in the HSJ blog Leadership in Mental Health, 6 February, 2013 The Francis report today set out some 290 recommendations to protect NHS patients from neglect and poor care. The report’s recommendations reach across the health services, from the accountability of individual professionals for their own conduct to the roles of the national
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The Schizophrenia Commission report sets out a radical, positive agenda to change mental health services
The recent Schizophrenia Commission report, The Abandoned Illness, has shone a strong light on the way we as a society respond to people with psychosis.
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Mental illness in prison is a crime
Last Thursday, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary Rt. Hon Sadiq Khan MP delivered a speech on mental health in the criminal justice system at our event.
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We need a holistic approach to mental ill-health and homelessness
Poor mental health is widely recognised as both a cause and a consequence of homelessness.
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Learning lessons in mental health care from around the world
Earlier in July, the journal Nature published a worldwide “call for urgent action” in research into mental health.
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