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Tuesday 30 August 2005
Is mental health care the "Cinderella" of the NHS?
Programme details
MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Raj is joined by Rosie Winterton MP, the Government Minister responsible for mental health services, to discuss some of the challenges faced by what's often called the "Cinderella" of the NHS.
Rosie Winterton and Sophie Corlett, the Policy Director of the mental health charity MIND, discuss these challenges and the changes proposed in the new Mental Health Bill. Samantha, shares her experience of an NHS psychiatric ward and the mental health treatment she received.
EMPLOYMENT AFTER MENTAL ILLNESS
Although surveys show that 90% of people who have been through a mental illness would like to work, the vast majority are unemployed. This costs the country £32 billion a year. Professor Paul Lelliot, Director of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Unit and Chairman of the First Step Trust, an organisation which helps people find work, joins Rosie Winterton MP to discuss the issue.
Raj also visits one of First Step Trust's projects in Brixton, London .
Employment and unemployment
Factsheet containing a list of resources on employment, unemployment and mental health. It concentrates on those organisations which can help find or retain employment
MIND week report 2005 : Stress and Mental Health in the Workplace
"This report pulls together existing research into stress and individual case studies, and looks at what stress is, what its effects on people can be, and how employees and employers can address the problem and its causes. It sets out easily introduced steps that can both help to reduce stress levels in the workplace environment and ensure employers are meeting their legal duties to staff."
Author: Susannah Robertson
Publisher: Mind - ISBN: 1-903567-62-9
First Step Trust
Runs work projects for people disadvantaged by severe and enduring mental health problems, learning disabilities, and drug and alcohol misuse recovery problems who have been denied access to work. Employment opportunities and psychiatric disability
This report is aimed at people working in mental health services, but is of relevance to the wide array of agencies concerned with vocational rehabilitation.
Pathways to Work Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health, 1999
Author: Sheila Durie
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