• NICE guideline for service users
• Published on Jan 25, 2012

NICE has published a clinical guideline on improving the experience of people who use adult NHS mental health services (www.nice.org.uk).

• Room to improve, says CQC
• Published on Jan 25, 2012

There were a total of 45,248 admissions and detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2010/11 and a total of 3834 uses of community treatment orders (CTOs) in the NHS and independent sector, according to the annual report of the Care Quality Commission (www.cqc.org.uk). 

• NHS spends £1 billion on recession depression
• Published on Jan 25, 2012

Prescribing for anxiety or depression since the onset of the economic recession has cost the NHS in England about £1 billion, a survey by the Co-operative Pharmacy has revealed (www.co-operative.coop).

• Funding for child mental health therapies
• Published on Nov 23, 2011

The Government has announced an investment of £32 million to fund psychological therapies for children and young people with mental health disorders.

• NHS multiple sclerosis services static
• Published on Nov 23, 2011

There has been no improvement in NHS services in England and Wales for people with multiple sclerosis in the past five years, a national audit by the Royal College of Physicians (www.rcplondon.ac.uk) has shown.