Cambridge Children’s Hospital delays could cost trust £1.6m

A mental health trust may have to pay £1.6m to stay where it is because of delays to a new children’s hospital. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) was due to move its children’s wards by April 2023. But delays to the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital mean the trust must extend its lease at… Continue reading Cambridge Children’s Hospital delays could cost trust £1.6m

Mental health: Denbighshire mobile unit breaking rural taboos

Big and bright yellow, the Doris (Denbighshire Outreach Rural Information Service) van is hard to miss. And yet, when it first started parking up at livestock markets in the county, most of the farmers looked the other way. Doris is reaching out in rural areas to offer mental health support, but stigmas around mental illness… Continue reading Mental health: Denbighshire mobile unit breaking rural taboos

‘CBT and therapy helped us more than anti-depressants,’ say mental health patients as NICE guidelines change

New draft guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommend people with depression should first be offered exercise before medication People with lived experience of mental health conditions have welcomed new draft guidelines that recommend patients with “less severe depression” should be offered exercise classes and counselling first before they are… Continue reading ‘CBT and therapy helped us more than anti-depressants,’ say mental health patients as NICE guidelines change

Mental health: Damning report shows Ysbyty Gwynedd failings

Lack of mental health focus in new Manx government plan under scrutiny

Concerns over regulation of electroconvulsive therapy in NI

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Somerset partnership helps cut mental health waiting times

Angels of the North hair stylist shares suicide bid story

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