Category Archives: Depression
Why is the NHS 'biased' towards mental health patients?
Paul Burstow: NHS is ‘biased’ against treating mental health
The NHS is “biased” against treating patients with depression and other mental health problems, wasting billions of pounds a year as their conditions grow worse, a former minister is warning.
By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent
6:00AM GMT 14 Mar 2013
Paul Burstow said families were paying the price as government figures showed spending on mental health services fell by 1 per cent last year.
Patients are suffering a “postcode lottery” in services across the country, with some areas spending three times more than others on therapies and treatment, he said.
The Lib Dem MP, who was the Care Minister until September’s reshuffle, is to lead a new Commission on mental health, backed by the think-tank CentreForum, which is launched today.
Writing for telegraph.co.uk, Mr Burstow said: “The NHS default remains stubbornly biased towards physical health – a terrible false economy at the expense of people’s lives, as well as the public purse.
Please remember mothers and carers struggling against poverty on this day
Bishop issues Mothering Sunday message
5:24pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News
THE Bishop of Dudley, the Rt Revd David Walker, is asking people to remember mothers who are struggling to make ends meet this year – 100 years after the campaign to re-establish Mothering Sunday was launched.
Rt Rev Walker said: “I’m not feeling very sentimental about motherhood this year, at a time when more and more mothers are needing to turn to church run Food Banks to see their children are adequately fed.