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...She highlights the impact of a recent decision by many UK police forces to stop attending call-outs relating to people in mental health crisis....
...The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt (Allen Lane/Penguin Press)This investigation into the collapse in youth mental health argues...
...At nearby Alder Hey, one of Europe’s biggest children’s hospitals, 64-year-old clinical nurse specialist Adrian Williams said the strike was not only about money....
...Strikers felt the public was largely on their side even when they or their relatives had personally felt the impact of an under-resourced service....
...Part of the answer, he and other specialists argued, will be in allocating sufficient resources to deal with rising demands on services. Another part, argues O’Kane, will be clinical....
...Last month NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said that it was also creating 40 mental health hubs across the country to give advice to workers and direct those in need to specialised services...
...Chitsabesan adds that the growth in funding for children is increasing as a proportion of mental health services and “faster than for the NHS overall”....
...Our mental health is the subject of several new books on depression — starting in January with two personal accounts, Mending the Mind by Oliver Kamm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and The Limits of My Language...
...(FT) Equality is good for the soul The FT’s Gillian Tett looks at how income inequality could be playing havoc with our mental health regardless of our wealth....
...She leads a team of 100 lawyers and has introduced opportunities for secondment as well as initiatives to support flexible working and promote good mental health among staff....
...David Crow is an FT correspondent in New York Photographs: Jennifer Hueston; Getty; Alamy...
...For the past couple of years, a senior psychiatrist friend has been telling me that for all the talk of the ringfencing of the NHS budget in England, he has been forced to cut the mental health services...
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