Posted: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 In a new £25million pilot scheme announced by the UK government recently, mental health nurses will be based at police stations and courts in ten areas of England. Their role will be to arrange for people with mental illness who end up at the police station because of disturbed behaviour to be diverted into the […]
Posted: Sunday, June 14th, 2015 The death of 86 year old John Nash, the US mathematician, along with his wife Alicia in a car crash in New Jersey in May came as a great shock to all those working with schizophrenia. Nash was one of the greatest mathematical minds of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel prize for […]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 Since the 1983 Mental Health Act came into force, police stations have routinely been used to detain people with schizophrenia thought to be at risk of harming themselves or someone else for short periods pending assessment by a psychiatrist and transfer to a local mental health unit. There have been several recent high profile cases […]
Researchers at Oxford University have confirmed that the life expectancy of people living with schizophrenia is lower than normal by 10 to 20 years; worse than that caused by heavy smoking. The research carried out by Doctor Seena Fazel and published in May 2014 looked at 20 previous studies covering over 1.7 million individuals and […]
Posted: Thursday, March 13th, 2014 At 10.00 am on 14th January 2008 a young man called Jonny, suffering an acute episode of schizo-affective disorder stood on the parapet of Waterloo Bridge in London deciding whether to throw himself off. If he had succeeded he would have been one of the 2,800 people with schizophrenia who end their own lives every […]
