Women's Mental Health Taskforce Report Published
Dania Hanif
Published: December 19, 2018
The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce – co-chaired by Jackie Doyle-Price, Minister for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention, and Katharine Sacks-Jones, Chief Executive of Agenda, – has today set out its key principles for gender and trauma-informed care in its final report. Women are more likely to experience common mental health conditions than men, and while…
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Dania Hanif
Published: December 19, 2018
The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce was formed in response to a rise in mental ill health among women. The taskforce’s final report sets out how women’s experience of mental ill health can differ to men’s. It covers: core themes in women’s mental health the involvement of women with lived experience principles for service design future…
Read moreMental Health Act Review Report Published
Dania Hanif
Published: December 6, 2018
Association of Mental Health Providers welcomes the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) Report published today. Chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, the report, Modernising the Mental Health Act, has outlined 154 recommendations for change, of which two have already been accepted by the Government. The MHA, described by Professor Wessely as being…
Read moreModernising the Mental Health Act – final report from the independent review
Dania Hanif
Published: December 6, 2018
The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 has set out recommendations for government on how the Act and associated practice needs to change. The final report sets out recommendations covering 4 principles that the review believes should underpin the reformed Act: choice and autonomy – ensuring service users’ views and choices are respected…
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