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Out of the blue?: motherhood and depression: Mind week report, May 2006: executive summary
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This new report draws attention to the extent of problems experienced by mothers before and after the birth of children, highlights shortfalls in service provision for women with perinatal mental health problems, and presents recommendations for better working practices.
The hidden costs of mental health
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 33p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report is largely based on a survey of people with mental health problems in Mind’s networks. It was designed to find out what types of care and treatment people with mental health problems did and didn’t get prescribed on the NHS, how much people were paying, and the affect that this was having on their lives. Almost one in five people who paid for un-prescribed care and treatment were spending more than £100 a month for treatment they felt they needed. And out of the 58 per cent who’d said they had missed out, 70 per cent felt the lack of treatment had hampered their recovery or ability to cope. Where care or treatment was prescribed by doctors, 45 per cent paid an average £37 a month (mostly for medication, complementary therapies, and counselling/therapy). 51 per cent of people paid an average £61 a month for un-prescribed care and treatment (mostly for complementary therapies and counselling/therapy). Despite a commitment from the Government in its national service framework four years ago to make mental health a priority, this report shows that people with mental health problems are not given equal status on the NHS and are often forced to foot the bill for their own treatment.