Mental health services are very unlikely to see any of the £15 billion in funding announced by the government in…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was set up by the last Labour administration, under the terms of the 2008 Health…
There are around 8 million people in England that are denied access to mental health services because they do not…
As we move into 2021, the year Jeremy Hunt promised to have redressed the “historic imbalance” between physical and mental health, and…
On 1 October 2020, NHS England passed its budget for specialist mental health services to 10 groups of providers across…
By Sylvia Davidson and Paul Evans Since the introduction of lockdown measures in March, there have been concerns about the…
Several Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have been found to have made false claims about how much they have spent on…
Martin Shelley – Mental Health Awareness Week, pushing for wider community support for people severely affected by mental illness, has…
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