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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The new year has brought a fresh volley of bad news on the state of Child and Adolescent Mental Health…
NHS Providers, professional bodies and Royal Colleges have been increasingly forthright in their warnings on the state of the NHS…
The chronic lack of provision of child and adolescent mental health services has been repeatedly highlighted by reports from the…
Despite warm words about ‘parity of esteem’ for mental and physical health since 2011, mental health services are the poor…