Responding to Frank Field MP’s comments, Sophie Corlett, Director of External Relations at Mind released the following statement. 

The Welsh Government is set to announce significant changes so that a long-standing council tax reduction in Great Britain is no longer hidden for people diagnosed as ‘Severely Mentally Impaired’ (SMI).

We can’t allow fake news and pernicious propaganda to undermine a medical advance that has helped save so many lives. This is about the health and wellbeing of our children. It would be shameful tragedy if we failed them by not acting, says Jon Ashworth MP.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of ditching a pledge to halt privatisation in the NHS after it emerged more than £100 million-worth of health contracts are currently out to tender.

We need to recognise the challenges that autistic people may face, so we can celebrate their unique talents and skills, says Health Secretary, Matt Hancock MP. 

More people with dementia than ever are being rushed to hospital A&E departments for support and then staying in hospital for a short time, according to new statistics.

The NHS must curb falling staff numbers and employ more from overseas if Theresa May’s long-term plan for the service is to become a reality, MPs have warned.

Poll finds overwhelming majority of public across all parts of the country support assisted dying proposals. 52% of people would feel more positively towards their MP if they supported assisted dying, compared to just 6% who would feel more negatively.

Women across England and Wales will get vital mental health support as part of a major new programme launched by mental health charity Mind and Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk.

The Government will not appoint a new disabilities minister until after the Brexit crisis has been resolved, the Tories vice-chairman has said.

Slimming World welcomes the publication of Cancer Research UK’s report Paying the price: new evidence on the link between price promotions, purchasing of less healthy food and drink, and overweight and obesity in Great Britain.

Compassion in Dying responds to the Court of Protection judgment on the case of Mrs Rushton, which was made public yesterday (26 March 2019):

The Government is being accused of driving a staff retention crisis as more than 200,000 nurses have quit the NHS since 2010, a new analysis from Labour has found.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published data showing the prevalence of mental health problems among young people in England. The numbers suggest that certain groups of are at greater risk of developing a mental health problem in childhood and adolescence, including people who live in social housing, those whose parents have a mental health problem and those whose families need support from benefits.

Waiting times set a patients’ expectation for when they should begin treatment, but they do nothing to inform a comprehensive treatment programme. President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, Professor Ravi Mahajan, says the quality of care should not be measured by time based targets alone, but also include post-operative outcomes and the quality of life after surgery.

Hft, a charity supporting adults with learning disabilities, has responded to a consultation by the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care by calling for information to be consistently provided in accessible formats.

Shadow SNP Spokesperson for Inclusive Society, Brendan O’Hara, writes following his Westminster Hall debate this week on the effect of leaving the European Union on the UK's health and social care sector. 

Dignity in Dying responds to the news that the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) will drop its longstanding opposition to assisted dying and adopt a ‘neutral’ position, following the UK’s largest every survey of medical opinion on this issue.

Research from Mind reveals that emergency services staff and volunteers are over twice as likely to say that their service encouraged them to talk about their mental health, compared to four years ago. 

Dignity in Dying has today published a new report on the network of anti-choice activists that is working together to attempt to silence the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) over its recent survey on assisted dying.

BSNA members are disappointed that Channel 4 televised a misleading episode of Dispatches on 18th March 2019, with many inaccuracies and assertions likely to unduly concern parents who, whether due to medical need or personal choice, feed their children infant formula.  

BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) continues to support the Government’s plan to ban pre-watershed junk food advertising as part of the childhood obesity strategy.

A study published on 15th March showed associations of dietary cholesterol or egg consumption with higher incidences of mortality and cardiovascular disease. BANT would like to take the opportunity to comment on the research since the consumption of eggs and links to heart disease have been controversial for decades.

Social media addiction may need to be classed as a disease to combat a "crisis" in young people's health, MPs have said.