by Sam | 20 Aug 2014 | Children and Families
Care Minister Norman Lamb has told the BBC that mental health services for children and young people are “stuck in the dark ages” and has reiterated his commitment to establish a taskforce to look at ways of improving the way the services are organised and...
by Sam | 8 Aug 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has pledged to establish a £50 million fund for research into mental health, according to The Daily Telegraph. Clegg, and his Lib Dem colleague Health Minister Norman Lamb, have pushed throughout this...
by Sam | 25 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The Guardian has report on Freedom of Information requests by Shadow Public Health Minister Luciana Berger to England’s 211 CCGs have shown that 72 out of 142 CCGs which responded spend less than 10% of their budget on mental health services, while noting significant...