57,170 new and expectant mums received support for perinatal mental health in 2024, according to the NHS, up from 40,000 in 2023 but short of the 66,000 target ...

The map finds that Rotherham had the highest number of new referrals to children’s specialist mental health services (182 per 1,000 compared to a national average of 70).

New research has highlighted an increase in the cost of care provided by NHS Mental Health Trusts, with the highest costs seen among working-age men and residents from England's most deprived areas.

The majority of the private hospital sector’s profit has come from NHS patients, with £2.13bn spent by the NHS in 2023 – equating to 13.3 per cent of the NHS’s total spend on mental health.

The NHS paid out £2.2bn in clinical negligence compensation in 2021/22, along with legal costs of £627m, although those figures don’t even include claims when it outsources to private ...

A £150 million investment over the next three years will bolster NHS mental health services, better support people in crisis outside of A&E and enhance patient safety in mental health units.

NHS England also announced a £40 million funding increase in 2021-22 to "address the Covid impact on children and young people’s mental health and enhance services across the country".

NHS mental health hospitals are allowing male criminals to self-identify as women, NHS documents have revealed. Trusts in London are permitting transgender women to use female-only spaces despite ...

Community mental health nurses based at GP surgeries can significantly improve patient outcomes, a new study shows. The research led by Staffordshire University examined anonymized data of over ...

Digital transformation holds promise for improving safety, quality and efficiency, but many mental healthcare providers haven’t yet had the opportunity to make the shift. Compared to other parts of ...

The majority of the private hospital sector’s profit has come from NHS patients, with £2.13bn spent by the NHS in 2023 – equating to 13.3 per cent of the NHS’s total spend on mental health.