Shanice Abbott is investigating mental health and unemployment in the Midlands. In a cross-post from her own site, she recommends 15 organisations to follow on Twitter. You can support Shanice’s investigation on Contributoria here. Providing mental health care in Birmingham Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust is an organisation that provides mental health care […]
Fiona Parker and Neil Johnston, freelance journalists and final year students at York, have chosen seven key centres in the city to follow on welfare issues. 1. York Teaching Hospital The teaching hospital in York has over 700 beds and is located fifteen minutes from the centre of the City. The York Teaching Hospital Trust, the […]
HMI Welfare wanted to know what help was on hand for people with mental health problems in hospital Accident and Emergency departments. It seemed a simple question: How many mental health staff work in A&E? What we found, however, was an inconsistency across NHS helplines about who to ask about the services available to mental health patients. We contacted: NHS England, […]
Tweet The number of university students seeking counselling has risen over a third in the last four years, according to an investigation by Help Me Investigate. And at five universities numbers have more than doubled. The University of Glasgow had … Continue reading →
Consultations are always useful sources of information, background, and analysis of a particular sector. The NHS Commissioning Board recently launched a consultation on “service specifications and clinical policies”. These, they say, are “important in clearly defining what the NHS Commissioning Board … Continue reading →