The plans would allow people in acute mental distress to get treatment in hospital while also reducing A&E wait times.

The NHS will open more mental health crisis centres across England in a bid to keep those patients out of “crowded A&Es”, the head of NHS England has said. The new service, staffed by specialist ...

says she would not end a call if she didn't feel she had helped People in crisis with mental health problems can now access services through NHS 111 in England, giving them another way to get ...

Credit: PA Images Some targets for mental health care have been removed from formal instructions due to be issued to NHS bosses this Thursday, ITV News understands. It has also been claimed that ...

Data released by mental health trusts within the NHS in England indicates that nearly 5,000 individuals, encompassing both children and adults, experienced readmission to mental health facilities ...

NHS 111 will for the first time offer mental health support to people in crisis. Adults and children in England will now be able to call the phone number and access mental wellbeing help in the ...

Paramedics will treat more people at the scene of 999 call-outs under NHS plan to tackle 'corridor care’ which will also see ...

Levels of staff sickness in the NHS in England have reached a record high ... which accounted for a quarter of sick days. Mental health problems were the single most common cause of sickness ...

Following more than 50 freedom of information requests to NHS England mental health trusts, with 38 responses, we can reveal: • Nearly 20,000 "sexual safety incidents" were reported on inpatient ...

NHS England’s mental health support service for health professionals will no longer take on new secondary care doctors, and will review its offer to all staff groups in the long term. The NHS ...

Campaigners have accused NHS England of "closing ranks" after a mental health trust once deemed the worst performing in the country was removed from special measures. It was confirmed this week ...