Mental Health Services Under-Resourced ? Yes ! Suicide Prevention Minister And Related Reports Covering The Meltdown
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:28 am
Yep ... today's Guardian :
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... prevention
A good start ?

Good luck !
Suicidal tendencies ... a combination of factors.
Different factors for every person.
A textbook approach ?
Or , more shrinks to be available ... at an affordable cost ?
If Austerity is cited as a common factor , will " Our Boy " seek to change Government policy ?
Or ... keep quiet ... for the sake of the Party ?
Still get 1 to 10 ON ... if you're quick !
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I thought the name ... Jackie Doyle-Price ... rang bells :
https://www.carersuk.org/forum/news-and ... le%20Price
She of a " Responsibility to care " , and a staunch supporter of the bedroom tax , fame.
Make it three luv ?
A West Sham United fan ... that will make my day !
A vixen in charge of the hen house ?
I have a looooong memory !

I couldn't do a better job in making this up if I tried ???
I wonder why ?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... prevention
Mental health services under-resourced, says Matt Hancock.
Health secretary says services are ‘way off ’ what is needed, as suicide prevention minister appointed.
The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has conceded that mental health services have been under-resourced and undervalued as he announced the appointment of a minister for suicide prevention.
Jackie Doyle-Price, a health minister, will be given the new brief and tasked with ensuring that every local area has effective plans in place to stop unnecessary deaths, and investigating how technology can help identify those most at risk.
A report by Whitehall’s spending watchdog, released on Wednesday, found that even if current plans to spend an extra £1.4bn on the sector were delivered, there would be “significant unmet need” because of staff shortages, poor data and a lack of spending controls on NHS clinical commissioning groups.
Hancock said the National Audit Office report showed service provision was “still way off where we need to be” but improvements had been made.
“The truth is that, for an awfully long time, mental health has simply not had the same level of support – both in terms of resources, but also in terms of how we as a society talk about it – compared to physical health, and we want to change that,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
As well as having a minister for suicide prevention, the government wanted to ensure that “as we write the long-term plan for the future of the NHS, which we are writing at the moment, we make sure that mental health is a crucial component of that”.
Doyle-Price, whose new title will be minister for mental health, inequalities and suicide prevention, said she would put bereaved families at the heart of her strategy. She is believed to be the world’s first minister for suicide prevention.
She said in a statement: “I understand how tragic, devastating and long-lasting the effect of suicide can be on families and communities. In my time as health minister I have met many people who have been bereaved by suicide and their stories of pain and loss will stay with me for a long time.
“It’s these people who need to be at the heart of what we do and I welcome this opportunity to work closely with them, as well as experts, to oversee a cross-government suicide prevention plan, making their sure their views are always heard.”
At a reception on Wednesday to mark World Mental Health Day, Theresa May will say mental health provision is one of the “burning injustices” she pledged to tackle when she became prime minister.
“Together we can change that,” she will say. “We can end the stigma that has forced too many to suffer in silence. We can prevent the tragedy of suicide taking too many lives. And we can give the mental wellbeing of our children the priority it so profoundly deserves.”
The prime minister has also pledged up to £1.8m to ensure the Samaritans’ helpline remains free for the next four years, as well as new mental health support teams for schools, who will be given help to measure their students’ health, including their mental wellbeing.
However, the children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, thought the proposed five-year plan was too long to wait for some children, and said five years “feels like a lifetime to a young child”.
“I want to see a counsellor in every secondary school, every primary school having access to counselling services, a closing of the huge gap in what is spent on adult and children’s mental health and a system in place that provides support and treatment for every child who needs it, when they need it,” she said. “Today’s announcement is a step forward that must now be matched by proper funding and more ambitious delivery.”
A good start ?
New suicide prevention minister previously made jokes about suicide.

Good luck !
Suicidal tendencies ... a combination of factors.
Different factors for every person.
A textbook approach ?
Or , more shrinks to be available ... at an affordable cost ?
Children in poor families seven times more likely to harm themselves, study finds
" Though to some extent, we all make choices, what children go through does have a powerful effect on these harmful behaviours. "
Growing up in poverty can have an “adverse impact” on child development, which can in turn lead to higher risk of self-harm and violence, researchers at the University of Manchester found.
Suicide rates twice as high in deprived areas.
Monday 6th March 2017
As Samaritans releases a report linking inequality with a higher risk of suicide, the charity is calling on the government, businesses, industry and sector leaders to be aware of the risks of suicide and to direct supportive resources to those with unstable employment, insecure housing, low income or in areas of socioeconomic deprivation.
If Austerity is cited as a common factor , will " Our Boy " seek to change Government policy ?
Or ... keep quiet ... for the sake of the Party ?
Still get 1 to 10 ON ... if you're quick !
#########################################################################
I thought the name ... Jackie Doyle-Price ... rang bells :
https://www.carersuk.org/forum/news-and ... le%20Price
She of a " Responsibility to care " , and a staunch supporter of the bedroom tax , fame.
Make it three luv ?
A West Sham United fan ... that will make my day !
A vixen in charge of the hen house ?
I have a looooong memory !

May slaps down minister in dementia tax row by saying the elderly CAN pass their homes on to their children
Health Minister Jackie Doyle-Price was filmed making the claim to Tory activists.
She said the elderly were not 'custodians of an asset to give their offspring.'
PM said it's fair and right that Brits are able to pass on homes to their children.
Tory plan to fund social care was branded the 'dementia tax' in June's election.
The policy was dumped after the backlash helped destroy May's majorit
I couldn't do a better job in making this up if I tried ???
I wonder why ?