The British Medical Association (BMA) has expressed extreme concerns to the Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill. The Association claims that as the Bill stands it is unethical, unworkable and in conflict with the Human Rights Act…

Last week plans for big changes in incapacity benefits were unveiled by Work and Pensions Secretary Alan Johnson.

The new plans would see incapacity benefit split into two new benefits: Rehabilitation Support Allowance and Disability and Sickness Allowance. This would differentiate between those on incapacity benefit who have a “severe condition” and those with “potentially more manageable conditions”…

‘Count Me In’, the first national mental health ethnicity census, is set to take place on March 31st 2005. The census is part of a national programme aiming to improve services for people with a mental illness and their carers from black and minority ethnic communities…