The National Children and Adult Services Conference 2014 is just over a week away, which can mean only one thing: the Social Care News blog is champing at the bit to deliver coverage of this landmark care and support event, …
If you are tasked with the job of improving your patients’ health and the health of your population, or you are responsible for reducing A&E admissions, outpatient visits and general practice consultations, then book your place at the 16th annual …
The Self Care Forum, established in 2011, is the national UK organisation dedicated to helping people take care of themselves. Founding member Gopa Mitra explains their mission to further the reach of self care and embed it into everyday life …
World Mental Health Day 2014 marked 24 hours of focused activity on promoting better mental health around the world. In many ways though it's already been a 'mental health year' given the flurry of announcements, initiatives, consultations and new commitments …
Eight weeks into her post as Head of Better Care in Portsmouth, Jo York prepares to present an update on the region's Better Care plans to a diverse audience of local health and social care staff, service users, carers and …
For me, the Mental Health Act Code of Practice consultation has been an incredibly rewarding exercise. In the ten weeks to 12 September, we held over 20 engagement events and received more than 300 submissions via email, post and online, …
"Social media are often in the news for the wrong reasons, but in the last two years I have been struck by something positive - the emotional support they offer to people who cannot easily find it elsewhere", explains the …
“Tell her to pull herself together...” “All she needs is a good kick up the backside…” “Forget it. It’s just hopeless...” As a father and carer of a daughter, of mixed race heritage, who had dropped out of her A-level …
The International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) conference ended three very positive days of presentations, discussion and debate in Old Trafford, Manchester last week. The final day witnessed some moving and impassioned presentations from leaders and expert clinicians from …
There are have been a number of landmark events in the mental health calendar in recent months: the launch of the mental health action plan (Closing the Gap), the Crisis Care Concordat and a review into police powers and the …