Hospital trusts' operating budgets rose by 2.6%, the charity Health Foundation said, in contrast to the Health and Social Care Act 2012's emphasis on the importance of mental health alongside physical well-being.
Category Archives: Mental Health Care
Breaking point: Hong Kong's overburdened mental health care …
Waiting times for mental health treatment are the longest of all the specialist services offered in the public health system. The longest waiting time among the seven hospital districts now stands at 166 weeks, or more than three …
End 'two-tier' mental-health care system, Michael Kirby urges …
Only a quarter of Canadian children with mental illness are getting the help they need, says the retired senator who chaired a landmark report on mental health in Canada a decade ago.
Editorial: Let's talk about funding for mental health care | Ottawa …
It is good that the stigma surrounding mental illness is falling away. But hospitals and other care facilities are still struggling to offer proper care, as shown by the gut-wrenching case of a local teen who was bounced around …
The Costs of Not Caring: How to Fix Our Broken Mental Health Care …
By Shani Dowd, Director, Culture InSight, at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and Dr. Nicholas Covino, President of William James College. The mental health system in our country is broken, but this comes as no …