This week in a speech at the UN in Geneva, the UN’s special rapporteur for health, Dr Dainius Puras, delivered…
The Care Quality Commission has identified major problems at yet another independent sector hospital delivering mental health care services to…
In mental health services the NHS reliance on private providers can be much greater. Department of Health figures compiled by…
A long-delayed innovative collaboration between public and private providers for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in Kent, Surrey…
Plans to hand over millions of pounds worth of specialised commissioning for mental health, learning disabilities and autism to other…
One in four people will experience a mental health problem each year but most go untreated. Extra funding and new…
A mental health patient was left waiting in the Royal Blackburn Hospital’s emergency department for almost five days for a bed,…
Shocking new findings from NHS Providers’ latest survey of frontline mental health trust leaders include the fact that fewer than…
The NHS has a large number of contracts with private providers of mental health services, both residential and in the…
One of the most serious affects of outsourcing in the NHS that has been observed is a decline in quality…