WHO Mental Health Guidelines Could Better capture ‘Lived Experience’

Mental health patients want mental health diagnostic descriptions to better reflect what it feels like to live with their conditions in the World Health Organisation’s global manual of diagnoses – according to a new Lancet Psychiatry report. The study, by UK and US researchers at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), the University of […]

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Children from Deprived Areas Six Times More Exposed to Tobacco Retail

Children from the most income deprived areas experienced similar exposure to tobacco retailing in one day as children from the least deprived areas experienced in one week. This was the finding of new collaborative research between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which was published today in the journal Tobacco Control. The researchers used GPS-trackers […]

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Innovative Mental Health Portal The Mind Map Launches

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A new mental health portal www.themindmap.co.uk will launch on Wednesday 3 July 2019. This innovative new platform focuses on providing young people, predominantly aged between 16 – 30 access to subsidised counselling, the ability to find and book free mental health services and resources as well as access to a magazine that shares articles and […]

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