Commenting on the Department of Health's 2008 survey into public attitudes towards mental ill health, released yesterday, Mind chief executive Paul Farmer said: 'People with mental distress are still confronted with a barrage of fear and misunderstanding.'
"The government, the third sector and individuals need to continue to commit themselves to breaking down these barriers in the long term."
To read the survey results, visit www.dh.gov.uk
Moving to new data standards will be “traumatic” for the NHS but is vital because “we are really struggling to measure and understand the activity at the front door of our hospitals,” a senior NHS England figure has said.
NHS England has said Cally Palmer, national cancer director and chief executive of the Royal Marsden Foundation Trust, will “play no part” in decisions on new child cancer standards.
Acute trusts will need to increase their bed base during the next five years according to NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, which would reverse a long trend of bed reductions in the NHS.
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