Category Archives: mental health
Hospice is first in country to appoint mental health nurse as dementia cases increase
A DURHAM hospice has become the first in the country to appoint a special mental health nurse to address the growing numbers of people with dementia.
Sharron Tolman has joined the staff at St Cuthbert’s Hospice in Durham City.
The North East’s first Admiral Nurse is employed by the hospice but will get clinical supervision through the Admiral Nurse organisation, which is supported by Dementia UK.
The scandal of common mental illnesses left untreated
Would we tolerate a situation in which the majority of those suffering from diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis were left to fend for themselves, or asked to make do with inferior therapies?
Imagine you are the campaigns manager of a political party. You are aware of a public health crisis that, at any one time, affects a third of the population, reduces life expectancy as drastically as smoking, is more disabling than angina, asthma, or diabetes, and reduces GDP by around 4% each year. You know this crisis can be substantially – and cheaply – alleviated. Wouldn’t you make the issue a central theme in your election campaign?
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