https://www.gbnews.com/news/nhs-bosses-destroying-careers-whistleblowers-speak-out-patient-safety WATCH: Jacob Rees Mogg on NHS sentimentality and hysteria https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/jacob-rees-mogg-tories-nhs-reforms GB News By George Bunn One medic has dubbed it ‘the biggest scandal within our country A group of medics has warned that NHS whistleblowers are having their careers ruined by managers. More than 50 doctors and nurses have said they have been targeted after raising concerns […]
REFORM BENEFITS SYSTEM TO PROTECT CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH, SAY CHARITIES 24 JULY 2024 The Government must overhaul the benefits system to tackle poverty and boost children’s mental health, according to a new report from Centre for Mental Health, Save the Children UK and the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition. A dual crisis says that […]
Being active is important for our mental health. But so many of us struggle to get enough exercise. We know there are many different reasons for this, so this Mental Health Awareness Week we want to help people to find moments for movement in their daily routines. Going for a walk in your neighbourhood, putting […]
The government is preoccupied and has a lot of things to do, but this issue is not going to go away’ warns health ombudsman Rebecca Thomas Health Correspondent Tuesday 29 November 2022 10:32 GMT The human rights of vulnerable mental health patients are being violated because of the crisis in care, a regulator has warned. Rob Behrens, the health service ombudsman […]
The UK is becoming a thoroughly medicalised nation, with various players: patients, doctors, other professionals, government and public health, acting in some cases to increase or in others to decrease medicalisation. Over a single professional lifetime, general medical practice has reversed from being mainly reactive work with doctors responding to patients’ symptoms, to a pro-active […]
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/sexual-abuse-mental-health-uk-b2484163.html A major investigation by The Independent’s Rebecca Thomas and Sky News’s Rob Mulhern has revealed the horrific scale of sexual abuse and assault within the UK’s psychiatric system Monday 29 January 2024 11:54 ( ) Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health SIGN UP I would like to be […]
This editorial discusses the pros and cons of community treatment orders (CTOs) from the perspective of community general adult psychiatry. There is little scientific evidence supporting the application of CTOs. Preconditions of a CTO to work are likely to be met by few patients. The time for the application of a CTO may be better […]
By Alan Haslam BBC Panorama https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63061077 A vulnerable young woman is locked on the other side of a thick glass window, crying like I have never heard anyone cry before. For hours I have been sitting outside the small room, listening to her desperate pleas to be let out. This is the image that haunts […]
