Commentary 2

29 Apr 2022

Troubled mental health trust’s watchdog warning is ‘only the tip of the iceberg’

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has been warned by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that it must improve.

The CQC’s latest report into the trust, which serves a population of just over 1.6 million people, rated its services ‘inadequate’ and inspectors have served it with a warning notice. The …

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12 Apr 2022

SANE calls for help to shape future mental health services

SANE is urging everyone concerned to join us in helping to shape future mental health services after the government launched a public consultation on a new 10-year mental health plan.

The public, people of all ages with lived experience of mental health conditions, health and care professionals, and those who …

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28 Mar 2022

Inquiry examines 1,500 deaths in Essex mental health services

A public inquiry has learned of the deaths of 1,500 people who were in the care of Essex mental health services over a 21-year period.

The Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry is the first of its kind in England and is investigating matters surrounding the deaths of mental health inpatients …

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15 Mar 2022

Mental health slipping down the agenda

Figures from NHS Digital have shown a 15% rise in the number of referrals to specialist mental health services last year. For the first time, the number of children and adolescents being referred topped one million.

With an estimated 1.4 million people still waiting for treatment, the figures prompted the …

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01 Mar 2022

Urgent support needed for the epidemic of self-harm

Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is a global event held annually on 1 March. Also known as Self-Harm Awareness Day, its purpose is to remove the stigma attached to self-injury and to encourage parents, family members, educators and healthcare professionals to recognise the signs of self-harm.

Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of …

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09 Dec 2021

Call to action for mental health services

People with psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, are five times more likely to die from Covid-19 and three times more likely to be hospitalised according to new research by University of Manchester health data scientists.

The most detailed study to date examining COVID-19 outcomes in people with different diagnoses of …

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07 Dec 2021

Serious case reviews after deaths of twins

Serious case reviews into the deaths of teenage twins Sam and Chris Gould were published today, which found multiple failures by a range of differing agencies.

Their parents, Ian Gould and Jane Cannon, said that their daughters’ lives could have been saved had numerous chances not been missed by the …

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01 Dec 2021

CQC survey finds mental health care ‘poorest for years’

An annual survey from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has found that people’s experiences of mental health care continue to be poor, with people’s experience of some areas of care at their lowest point in eight years.

The CQC’s Community Mental Health Survey shows that nearly half of respondents reported that their mental health …

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03 Nov 2021

End-of-life care and assisted dying

Baroness Meacher has introduced a private member’s bill in the House of Lords to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales for people who are terminally ill, mentally competent and who have less than six months to live.

Marjorie Wallace, SANE’s Chief Executive, has given her views on this proposed …

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10 Oct 2021

World Mental Health Day – A Lost and Lonely Generation

The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’, which was chosen by a global vote of members and supporters of the World Federation for Mental Health.

The inequalities with access to mental health services

The theme highlights areas which SANE has been …

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