Welcome to the Mental Health Today Update, with exclusive features and opinion plus the latest news
News
- Hunt sets NHS zero suicide target
- NHS charging £21,000 to disclose shock therapy use
- ‘Compassion fatigue threatens NHS’ warns mental health trust chief
- Sectioning applications up 40 percent in last decade
Features and opinion
- ‘Time to talk has been critical when I’ve slipped close to depression’ says international charity Basic Needs’ chief executive
- Advocates – who are they and what do they do?
- Joining the dots – why the law should require NHS Trusts to do more to connect patients to advocates
- How to make a decision when you’re depressed
- #MHTchat: rights to an advocate under the Mental Health Act
Help us push for a Mental Health Act that’s fit for our times
People sectioned under the Mental Health Act have limited rights but there is an opportunity to change the law this year. We need your donations to help us campaign for the right to know the care plan to be legalised, along with the right to choose which family member can represent you if you are too distressed.
MHT Wales is taking place again this year on 10 May at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff… and we’d like you to join us.
Spend the day with key thought-leaders in mental health as they address today’s most competitive challenges. You’ll go home with new insight and strategies to help improve crisis care, better understand equality & diversity and recognise mental health conditions.
Nadine and Barney
Web Editors, Mental Health Today
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