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Villicare, the joint venture partnership between estates specialist, Ryhurst, and Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP), has ‘made significant savings by implementing and managing a commercially driven procurement process’ for the construction of its first capital project for CWP at the Countess of Chester Health Park.

A Finnish mental health start-up company says it hopes that an Internet-based service it has established that enables people seeking help with mental health issues to find the ‘right’ psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychotherapist, will become Europe’s leading mental health service portal.

Six leading mental health organisations recently joined forces to produce 'a plan of action' for the Government in the first 100 days of the new Parliament to help improve the lives of people with mental health problems.

Visitors to a new event held at the Royal College of Physicians in London last month were asked to consider art’s role in improving the healthcare environment.

Right here, right now, a report published in June by the Care Quality Commission highlighting people's experiences of help, care, and support, during a mental health crisis, says one in 12 of those questioned reported coming into contact with between six and 10 different services.

Half of England is now covered by a new service to ensure that people with mental health conditions, learning disabilities, or 'other vulnerabilities', are supported in police custody and the courts.