Carers UK welcomes historic end to means testing for personal care Carers UK welcomes historic end to means testing for personal care The Prime Minister today...
28th September 2009 | Issue 10 About mental illness Living with mental illness How can we help Get involved Please find attached the latest contract post...
Gordon Brown may have emphatically denied he is taking prescription drugs, but the furore around Andrew Marr's questioning of his health has underlined that...
Denis Campbell's piece (Shortcuts, G2, 24 September) highlighting that 1 in 100 adults has autism shows that it is surely time to stop calling autism, ADHD,...
Individual's own efforts People who experience mental health problems, contrary to common belief are seldom completely unaware of their difficulties. Often...
HOPE Hope generates the will to change. To hope might seem unrealistic if everyone tells the person they have to accept their condition and it will be with...
Recovery Recovery for a person suffering a mental health problem even the more severe forms, is not a miracle it is a very real possibility. Some people can...
By Alexander Linklater Alexander Linklater Saturday September 8, 2007 Guardian When she conducts training sessions with police or ambulance officers, Janey...
The suggestion that few people with mental illness recover or manage to cope with their condition is untrue, according to a survey carried out by the UK mental...
What is striking in looking at the history of mental health care is that at periods through the centuries, indeed through the millennia, there has been an...
Like many other medications, antipsychotic medications were discovered accidentally. In the 1950s scientists synthesized a new medication intended for the...
I believe Recovery is possible, although I work with carers and promote hope and recovery...because I believe it is possible! I do not consider myself a...
Babies born to women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for depression during pregnancy were at increased risk for septal heart defects, especially...
Hi, that's a good response. I know exactly what you mean about the negative symptoms - looking back on my own troubles, i would say that I had quite a...
HI Alex I get where you are coming from with the determination but do think there is a difference between having psychosis and a diagnosis of schizophrenia and...
  SWEP website Everything that you need to know about participation in social work education in one place Dear colleague The new Social Work Education...
Look in your email, Pam Donate/Circulate .... Thank You. http://www.justgiving.com/robhanlon  http://www.aimhighpeak.com   ... From: Pamela Pinder...
then I look forward to hearing from you Rob! Website: www.pamshouse.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Message board: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Carersforumuk/ ...
I will certainly ask .... prepare to be surprised Pam... as the Clinical Audit Manager is a really nice guy and if he can't help then I'm sure he will know...
I would be surprised if your trust would give you a copy Rob, but there is no harm in asking! To highlight involvement, inclusion, support, information from...
Many mental health patients in England are being let down on central aspects of hospital care, a survey by the Care Quality Commission has revealed. The first...
I can certainly ask the Trust's Clinical Manager if he has such an Audit Tool, Pam. Â Is there something specific that you wish this Audit Tool to highlight ?...
Does anyone one have an audit tool for carers involvement/services you could forward to me. Or a link to something that would be useful. Thanks Pam Website:...
   BBC Daily E-mail  Other e-mail newsletters HELP DAVE CAMERON WITH A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN "This is it!" David Cameron declared at the start and end of a...