evidence for job advisers in hospitals is flawed
A report on the South London scheme that put job advisers into NHS hospitals is stacked with statistical biases. That being the case, it means that the positive findings from…
A report on the South London scheme that put job advisers into NHS hospitals is stacked with statistical biases. That being the case, it means that the positive findings from…
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, which readers may find distressing. Suicide is a major global public health issue, leading to approximately 700,000 deaths each year. While the…
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Labour Party boss Liz Kendall has told the BBC about the government’s plans to coerce people with “serious” mental health problems into work. This involves…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sat on a report for nearly two years that evidenced how its own processes quite literally make claimants’ health worse. It comes just…
A teenage girl suffering ‘intense emotional meltdowns’ had to wait two years – almost six times the target – for NHS mental health treatment, it has emerged. England’s Health Ombudsman…
For World Mental Health Day, Professor Linda Gask spoke to the Canary from her home in Orkney about her new book, Out of Her Mind: How we are failing women’s…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could potentially owe hundreds of thousands of personal independence payment (PIP) claimants thousands in back-payments. This is thanks to a high court ruling…
Can’t work due to bad mental health? You’re a selfish scrounger with no self respect according to the NHS director of mental health Claire Murdoch in the Times On Friday,…
Monday was the five-year anniversary of my girlfriend’s death. She was 28. Ultimately, she died from alcoholism after pneumonia caused her liver to shut down, which then triggered sepsis. She…
Canary columnist and ardent anti-NHS-privatisation campaigner Dr Julia Grace Patterson has once again exposed the rot festering at the heart of the UK’s healthcare system. Creeping NHS privatisation is in…
The latest analysis from finance expert, RIFT, has shown that, as a nation, we’re gambling more than ever as we continue to battle against the high cost of living. But while…
Content warning – this article mentions trauma and addiction. Over the past thirty years, LEGO has been used as a therapeutic tool for both children and adults. It seems that…