NHS spending – A New Vision for Mental Health

Designed by patients: the mental health centre saving the NHS £300,000 a year

Author: Editorial 27th July 2017 0 Comments

The patients who use the Gellinudd Recovery Centre have a say in everything from policy to the decor. Could co-produced innovations be the future for mental health care? Soft, neatly folded blankets hang invitingly over the backs of the modern…
Read more

collaborative practice

Gellinudd Recovery Centre, National Survivor User Network (NSUN), New Approaches, NHS spending, service users

Opinion: changing the NHS spending ratio

Author: Editorial 19th March 2017 0 Comments

Mental illness is now nearly 50% of all ill health suffered by people aged under 65 in Britain, and accounts for 23% of the total burden of disease. [1] At any one time, about 16% of adults and 10% of children…
Read more

a balanced budget

materialism, NHS budget, NHS spending, Opinion, Richard Oldfield

a balanced budget

Author: admin 31st October 2016 0 Comments

Our vision is of a budget more fairly divided between biophysical and mental & emotional healthcare. The NHS in England spends roughly seven times more on biophysical healthcare than on mental and emotional healthcare. The primary reason for this imbalance is that biophysical…
Read more

a balanced budget

NHS, NHS budget, NHS spending