Mental Health
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Yesterday (9 May 2019), Ashtons Medical Negligence partner, Sharon Allison, attended the Inaugural launch of the Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) in London. This initiative was born largely out of the...
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A study has found that teenagers are more likely to feel depressed, more likely to self-harm and less likely to enjoy a full night’s sleep than teenagers 10 years ago....
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An Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely – Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London and president of the Royal Society...
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A leading lawyer has invited the new chief executive of a failing mental health trust to meet her, to discuss 18 years’ experience of dealing with families bereaved because of...
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The number of children being prescribed antidepressants in the UK has risen over the last three years. In England, the number of children on antidepressants has gone up by 15%....
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The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust have today announced that across the two counties, 35 out of 144 beds have been closed. These bed closures have been put in place...
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An inquiry by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has found that young people are not receiving enough care around the time when they transition from child to adult mental...
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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week which is being supported by the Mental Health Foundation. Tying in with the theme, delegates at yesterday’s Ashtons and HAYS Annual Employment Conference...
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Mental Health Awareness Week – 14th-20th May 2018 – is an opportunity for employers to revisit current practices and to see if their policy and culture match up to best...
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We are now some way into the timeframe of the government’s “Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, a £1bn plan to improve mental health care by 2021” and one...
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Today is World Mental Health Day and Ashtons Legal are supporting this by sharing information which serves as a reminder to all of us to take stock of our own mental...
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The inquest is taking place this week at Huntingdon Town Hall into the death of a Cambridge woman, Hannah Allum, who took her own life whilst in a mental hospital....
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