General Election 2017: Mental health providers need more than kind words
Mental health problems affect 1 in 4 people each year – yet only £1 out of £8 in commissioner budgets is spent on mental health.
General Election 2017: Does reforming the Act mean action on mental health?
It should have come as no surprise that the start of Mental Health Awareness Week heralded a major related policy announcement. Echoing and expanding upon her maiden speech as prime minister, There...
The Mental Health Taskforce: opportunity knocks?
The NHS England mental health taskforce has published its report, a Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The initial reaction has been positive – alongside some concern about the money and imp...
The abandoned illness?
For years the word ‘schizophrenia’ has been whispered, with people either ignorant or fearful of what it means. Many families have often kept it a secret due to the stigma that surrounds it. Yet th...
So, what does quality improvement mean for me?
I’ve been working in mental health for 20 years and, in all this time, I can’t remember hearing as much about quality of the care we provide as I have in the last five years. Early in my career,...
