A report by the Mental Health Foundation has suggested that feeling lonely for a long time can lead to physical and mental health problems.
Report says loneliness can lead to mental health problems
Mental health spend £196.60 per person in Wales for 2008-09
An analysis of NHS Expenditure Programme Budgets for 2008-09 suggests that 11.6 per cent of the total health budget of just over £5 billion was spent on mental health, equivalent to £196.60 per person in Wales.
Children’s Commissioner tells Measure Committee: “Don’t let the children down.”
Children’s Commissioner for Wales Keith Towler has called for the Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure to extend to under 18s.
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Would you like to take part in a study of what it is like to have experienced psychosis in order to help the development of a new internet resource for patients, their families and health professionals?
“We won’t make it good overnight, we will make it better every day”
A seminar considering children’s and young people’s experience of serious mental illness up to the age of 25 has been held at the Media Resource Centre, Llandrindod Wells.
Hafal’s Road to Recovery tour campaign begins
Welsh mental health charity Hafal’s Road to Recovery touring campaign has begun.
Law barring people undergoing treatment for mental illness serving as jurors “not discriminatory”
The Ministry of Justice has rejected a request from Members of the Welsh mental health charity Hafal to review a law which disqualifies all people undergoing treatment for a mental illness from serving as jurors.