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New suicide prevention training rolled out to NHS mental health staff

The course includes advice on how to recognise and support patients in crisis.

Evening Standard

Mental health care ‘being rationed’ over failure to cut spiralling waiting list, top doctor warns

Some 1.7 million patients are waiting for community mental health care – with more than 48,000 waiting more than two years to be seen

The Independent UK

Resist ‘predatory’ Boxing Day gambling offers, say NHS bosses amid worsening crisis

Barrage of gambling adverts likely to exacerbate addiction, as NHS in England doubles number of clinics to meet demand

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Levy on casino and betting operators to raise £100m to tackle problem gambling

Online slot stakes will also be limited under the efforts to strengthen legislation on gambling addiction.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch slammed over ‘disgraceful’ and ‘wrong’ mental health claims in controversial pamphlet

Exclusive: Tory leadership candidate endorsed a pamphlet which said that the rise in welfare claims for mental health problems in the UK has ‘outpaced any conceivable clinical explanation’

The Independent UK

Mental healthcare in England is a national emergency, say hospital bosses

NHS Confederation says mental health has slipped down priority list and patients are being forgotten

The Guardian - UK

Police in England and Wales to reduce response to mental health-related calls

Response to mental health calls to be cut down to 20 to 30 per cent

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Plans to cut back on police attending mental health callouts

Ministers said it is up to police forces in England and Wales along with healthcare boards to work out when and how to put the changes into place.

The Independent UK

How being seduced by gambling’s love bombing ended with a prison sentence

For years the gambling industry was the wild west; an unregulated frontier that profited from pain and addiction. Now the government has promised to clean up betting and gaming. But many are eager for more to be done, writes Sarah Ingram, particularly those who nearly lost everything to it

The Independent UK

‘It’s predatory’: How gambling took over Britain’s high streets and seduced our MPs

The Independent UK

MPs told of long wait before response to child eating disorders improves

Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s national mental health lead, told MPs it will take at least two years for new guidance to be consistently implemented.

The Independent UK

Niece of missing Scots OAP Patrick Clark in desperate plea for information after 'out of character' disappearance

Patrick, 70, was last seen leaving a pub on Shore Street in Gourock at around 12.10am on Tuesday January 31.

Daily Record

NHS mental health boss ‘shocked’ ward managers not on seven days a week

Mental health lead ‘shocked’ to hear ward managers are ‘Monday to Friday people’

The Independent UK

Minister not ruling out public inquiry into mental health hospitals

‘We are seeing young people dying because of failings of care,’ admits minister Maria Caufield

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Daily Mirror

One million people with mental health problems ignored by NHS in 12 months

One patient said she only survived because her parents used £11,000 of their savings to put her in private care after was turned away from A&E after a suicide attempt

The Independent UK

Parents left ‘bawling’ trying to get mental health support for children – MP

Some are facing waits of two to four years for initial assessments, according to

The Independent UK

Government aims to tackle racial disparities with mental health reforms

The Department for Health and Social Care published the draft of the Mental Health Bill on Monday.

The Independent UK

Mental health support in schools available for 2.4m children, says NHS England

The health service said that a record number of children have sought help.

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NHS severs links with GambleAware over industry connection concerns

Move comes as health service starts to distance itself from an industry officials believe is damaging UK’s mental health

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