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Important things don’t always happen when you are looking for them. Last night’s vote by the House of Lords to enshrine in law the principle that mental and physical health must be treated equally within the NHS, may be one of them.
In November last year Rethink Mental Illness marked the 100th anniversary of the coining of the term to set up an independent Commission on Schizophrenia under the chairmanship of Sir Robin Murray. The Commission is aiming to take stock of what we know about schizophrenia, the experiences of those individuals and families affected by it and make practical recommendations which could make a difference to peoples’ lives.
Brad Pitt is the latest of many celebrities to open up about their mental health problems, and showing that mental illness can happen to any of us. But could it all go wrong?
25 January 2012
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Posted by Alice
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Every Christmas morning for the past thirteen years or more my grandparents and I have gone to see my mum. Where she is depends on what kind of year she’s had – sometimes it’s in her own flat, but other years she’ll be in the hospital. Actually, in some ways I feel that it might be better when she is in hospital at that time, as there is always company, whereas in her home she spends Christmas afternoon alone.
A microchip has been created that can record what medications a person has taken, and trigger a message sent to a phone. Could this help with complex pill regimes?
A couple of years ago personalisation seemed to dominate the policy landscape in health and social care. It even made a major appearance in one of Gordon Brown’s speeches to the Labour Party Conference. Whether it took five or ten years to implement there seemed to be a consensus that this was the direction of travel.
