Mental health

Fact checks covering mental health service provisioning, self harm, suicide, anxiety and depression

16 February 2018

Exam stress for school children

Exam stress clearly affects children in the UK, and there’s some evidence from counselling services and school leaders that it’s a growing problem.

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13 February 2018

Mental health during pregnancy

Around one in four pregnant mothers studied by King’s College London had a mental health disorder, but the study wasn’t designed to be representative of all pregnant women in the …

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19 December 2017

NHS spending on mental health

NHS England spent £11.6 billion on mental health in 2016/17.

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19 December 2017

Mental health crisis care

Liaison psychiatry is available in nearly all A&Es in England. More than half of these are 24/7, but the extent of care provision still varies across them.

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19 December 2017

Mental health staff in the NHS

The number of mental health doctors and nurses in the NHS has been falling.

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19 December 2017

Mental Health in England: Jeremy Hunt vs Ralf Little

The actor and the Health Secretary got into a dispute on Twitter over mental health services in England. We factchecked their claims.

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19 December 2017

Mental health: staff working in talking therapies

Staff numbers working in the talking therapies programme for people with anxiety and depression have risen by at least 2,850 since 2012.

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31 October 2017

Were no psychiatric beds available anywhere in England at the weekend?

NHS England say it’s incorrect there were no psychiatric beds available overnight across England on 28 October 2017. Previously services providers have said no beds of particular types were free.

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26 October 2017

The number of detentions under the Mental Health Act is rising

The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act has increased by 47% in ten years.

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28 September 2017

Heartache in Hertsmere: the unhappiest place in the UK?

“Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday”, the Office for National Statistics asks people every year.

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