Posted: Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 Figures released recently by the Prison Reform Trust reveal that around 15% of men and 25% of women confined in the UK prison system are suffering from psychosis. This amounts to around 5% of the schizophrenic population of the UK. So why is it that more than 100 years after the Victorians decided to stop […]
Posted: Friday, June 9th, 2017 Figures released by the UK’s National Health Service in May revealed that almost seven out of ten young people with a serious mental health condition are currently being treated outside their own area. An investigation by the doctor’s organisation, the British Medical Association showed that 69% of young people were being treated out-of-area. In some […]
Posted: Thursday, April 27th, 2017 Over recent weeks we have seen several surprise interventions in the mental health field with famous people speaking out about their own mental health. This was of course most notable last week when Prince Harry spoke about his struggles following the death of his mother. Mental health charity Mind described his decision to speak out […]
Posted: Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 The BBC Panorama current affairs programme broadcast in February highlighted the crisis facing the Mental Health Service in the UK due to under-resourcing. With mental health beds being cut by almost a half since 2000 the number of deaths due to suicide, violence and neglect by people with serious mental illness has been rising alarmingly. […]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 Although most of the media and politicians have been quick to ascribe political and religious motivation to recent attacks in Europe and elsewhere, there is in fact emerging a very disturbing pattern that suggests that some at least of those events may be more closely related to serious mental ill health rather than to religion […]
