Mental Health Act reforms do not go far enough for Autistic people
The following article is a comment piece from Simone Aspis, project manager for Free Our People Now – a project led by Autistic people and people with Learning Difficulties at…
DWP mental health claimants to be targeted in hospital by Labour
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…
NHS mental health services left 14-year-old girl waiting two years
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…
Why women still lose out in the mental health system
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…
Work coaches to be put in NHS mental health services
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,…
companies profit from mental health beds
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…