Mental Health
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The International Stress Management Association (ISMA UK) recognises International Stress Awareness Week each year in November. This year’s theme is Managing Stress and Mental Health Issues in the Age of...
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Kate Smith, a medical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal has obtained a settlement for Mrs D who lost her son after he took his own life. Mr D was known...
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As the children went back to school this week, parents were being contacted by schools to raise awareness of distressing video images on the social media video platform of a...
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West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, has been faced with a medical negligence bill 10 times larger than last year, research has found. The hospital, which just last month...
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An inquest has begun in Ipswich today (24 February) into the death of a Lowestoft man who drowned in his bath. The man’s family have instructed Sharon Allison, a medical...
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An inquest into the death of a Great Yarmouth woman who died in a fire at her home has revealed that health and social workers involved in the case ‘didn’t...
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Sharon Allison, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, is to represent a family at an inquest that opens tomorrow (29 January). The inquest will be looking into the death...
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The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), which last year was named as one of the worst mental health trusts, will stay in special measures, despite the Care Quality...
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It has been revealed that patients in need of a service called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – NHS England’s talking therapy service – are being left on waiting lists...
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Stephen Williams, leading divorce lawyer, discusses the effects of divorce on the families mental wellbeing. In a recent survey, 80% of mental health patients acknowledged the detrimental effects of their...
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A recent survey by Mind has revealed that a high number of children and adolescent mental health services have cancelled up to 175,000 appointments in the year up to July...
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Movember is an annual event that takes place throughout November that involves the growing of moustaches in order to raise awareness for men’s mental health, suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular...
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