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Proposals include funding nationwide outreach and assessment services, ensuring staff receive rapid access to mental health services. Announcing the funding at the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee yesterday, NHS National Mental Health Director Claire Murdoch also recognised the incre...
Staff handling the 111 calls will be able to organise face-to-face community support for patients or guide them to other services. Claire Murdoch, NHS England's director for mental health, said: "We know that record numbers of people are suffering with their mental health, and...
NHS Forth Valley provides and manages a wide range of health services including hospitals and General Practice with the Forth Valley area of Central Scotland.
NHS England has launched a programme to investigate how data sharing and digital health technologies (DHT) could close an "historic treatment gap in mental health provision."
Ross Cheape, Service Development Manager for Mental Health Services, NHS Forth Valley, said: “This service has been carefully designed in close collaboration with Emergency Department and Police Scotland colleagues. This joint approach ensures that people are seen at the right place, by the right ...
King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust—found that NHS hospitals, mental-health providers and community services have 100,000vacanciesand that there are another 110,000gapsin adult social care. If things stay on their currenttrajec...
Researchers at The University of Manchester have for the first time shown a positive link between improvements in mental health services and a reduction in suicide rates.
Included in the drive, the NHS will hire 2,000 more nurses, consultants and therapist posts in child and adolescent mental health services. There will also be 2,900 additional therapists and health professionals supporting adult talking therapies and 4,800 additional posts for nurses and therapists...
Higher education minister Michelle Donelan said that although moving to a new place is “one of the most exciting parts of going to university”, it can “create barriers” for students in accessing mental health services. She said she hoped to bring together university and healthcare r...