But almost immediately it became clear that his inquiry will not address the dirtiest, darkest secret of the UK’s mental health provision. This is the NHS’s dependency on outsourcing care to a ...

More than three in four NHS workers have experienced poor mental health in the last year, according to a survey. NHS Charities Together is now calling on the public to ensure healthcare workers ...

The Government has been accused of “failing” patients with mental illness after it emerged the share of NHS spending on mental health is set to fall in the next financial year. Health leaders ...

Latest NHS figures show mental health services have treated an extra one million people a year compared with six years ago. And the charity Mind estimates there are just under two million people ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has been accused of “deprioritising” mental health after a number of NHS targets were ...

The wards were the two inpatient mental health units for working age adults under the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust until the Hartington Unit’s services transferred to the new ...

The NHS in England spent more than £1.4bn of public money on private mental health beds between 2019 and 2024. The eye-watering figure was uncovered through Freedom of Information requests.

People suffering with urgent mental health problems in Wales can now ring a free NHS hotline. The 24-hour seven-day-a-week service can be accessed by dialling NHS 111 and selecting option two.

People in crisis with mental health problems can now access services through NHS 111 in England, giving them another way to get urgent help. This puts much of the UK ahead of other international ...