Health Tech
How is the NHS 111 service expanding?
Patients are set to receive an enhanced NHS 111 service, including increased access to specialist paediatric advice for children, and direct access to urgent mental keep reading
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Health & Patient Care
Primary care mental health support: during and after COVID
The recent surge in cases of COVID-19 in the UK has deepened concern over the pandemic’s possible mental health consequences This is an edited version keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Primary care mental health support: during and after COVID
The recent surge in cases of COVID-19 in the UK has deepened concern over the pandemic’s possible mental health consequences. This is an edited version keep reading
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How health tech can help tackle the mental health crisis
Former MP Norman Lamb, explores why technology can help tackle the growing mental health crisis CREDIT: This is an edited version of an article that keep reading
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GPs at forefront of delivering mental health care during pandemic, says RCGP
The Royal College of GPs has responded to new ONS figures on depression in adults Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, keep reading
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Suicide risk assessment and management
GPs have a vital role in identifying and supporting patients with severe depression or other mental health problems, assessing suicide risk and initiating treatment and keep reading
Management
Mental health crisis among doctors revealed in BMA report
According to a new BMA report, doctors and medical students are under huge risk of mental health issues due to professional pressure The wellbeing of keep reading
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Mental health therapists in practices could ‘radically change’ primary care
New guidelines from NHS England could see mental health therapists placed within GP surgeries NHS England has set out new guidelines which encourage the placement keep reading
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Workload is causing 40% of GPs to suffer mental health problems
A survey has shown that 40% of GPs in the UK are currently suffering a mental health condition as a result of being overworked According keep reading
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GPs need better support in tackling depression
A ‘loneliness epidemic’ has been blamed for very high numbers of older people being prescribed antidepressants; the RCGP has defended GPs’ role in this According keep reading