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30 Sep 2021
As many as one in six children in England has a probable mental disorder, according to a report by NHS Digital published today.
Girls were especially affected, with nearly 40% of children aged 6-16 and half of 17-23 year olds saying their mental health had become worse over the last …
07 Apr 2021
One in three people who were severely ill with coronavirus were subsequently diagnosed with a neurological or psychiatric condition within six months of infection, a study has found.
The study, which was published in the Lancet Psychiatry, found that these diagnoses were more common in Covid-19 patients than among those …
27 Jan 2021
Schizophrenia may be one of the highest risk factors for dying from COVID-19, second only to age, according to a new study.
Previous studies had found that people with mental illnesses, particularly depression and schizophrenia had a higher risk of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But …
27 Jan 2021
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) and The Prince’s Trust have today published a major study on the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Generation Z.
The research shows that while the wellbeing of all young people declines by the end of their teenage years and that there is …
13 Jan 2021
Please find below comment from Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, on the Reforming the Mental Health Act White Paper:
“What is staggering is that 30 years ago, over ninety per cent of patients in psychiatric hospitals were voluntary while today almost fifty per cent have had to …
30 Nov 2020
Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of SANE, comments on the parliamentary debate today on whether there should be a statutory public inquiry into the deaths of Matthew Leahy and 24 other patients at the Linden Centre, a secure mental health unit in Chelmsford, Essex:
“SANE welcomes this important milestone in the …
23 Nov 2020
Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of SANE, comments on mental health spending in the Chancellor’s forthcoming Spending Review:
“The additional £500 million to support mental health services in England is welcome, but crisis care is still desperately under-resourced and despite government pledges patients are still being shunted across the country to …
10 Nov 2020
Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of SANE, comments on the University of Oxford study published in Lancet Psychiatry that found an increased risk of psychiatric conditions amongst people who have had Covid-19:
“This study echoes SANE’s own experience. Our helpline is dealing with an increasing number of first-time callers who are being triggered …
02 Nov 2020
With the NHS weeks from being overwhelmed, and a higher death toll than the first wave predicted without new restrictions, the Prime Minister has announced another national lockdown. Fom Thursday 5 November, everyone must stay at home, with a limited set of exemptions.
Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of SANE, comments …
01 Nov 2020
Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive of SANE, comments on North Essex Partnership Trust pleading guilty to failures of care involving the deaths of 11 patients:
“We are saddened but not surprised that North Essex Partnership Trust has pleaded guilty to failures in the treatment of 11 patients who died while under …
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