Category Archives: mental health
Patients ‘struggle to get emergency mental health care’
People with urgent mental health problems are struggling to get emergency treatment in England and Wales, campaigners say.
A review by Mind highlighted a range of difficulties patients face getting help from community crisis teams and hospitals.
Its report said responses were all too often slow or not available at all.
More needs to be done for mental health care in the community
Mental health teams in hospitals can achieve major cost savings to the NHS, reveals new report
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
Liaison psychiatry teams in general hospitals can cut costs to the NHS by reducing how many people need beds and how long they stay, according to a report published by Centre for Mental Health with the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and funded by the Strategic Health Authority Mental Health Leads.
Liaison psychiatry services provide mental health care to people being treated for physical health conditions in general hospitals.
Meet Me in Winter is a demonstration of what’s possible when people unite
REAL PEOPLE. REAL VOICES. REAL FACES. REAL LIVES.
Look! We’re in Metro and the Daily Mail!
Meet Me in Winter is a demonstration of what’s possible when people unite – when they share their time, their commitment, their dreams, their stories and their resources to achieve extraordinary things. It’s a song, a music video, a celebration and an ever expanding community of people….
We want our song to be heard everywhere. We want it to be played on the radio and the video shown on TV. We want to teach it to anyone who’d like to learn it and then sing together.