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19 November 2007: Letter to The Guardian: Patrick Wintour's "Tiredness among 480 reasons people give for being unable to work, 19 November" lists very proficiently the groups of people who claim incapacity benefit.
1 November 2007: Letter to HSJ: Anyone glancing over Andrew McCulloch’s opinion piece on young people’s mental health last week would, from reading the introductory paragraph, have been forgiven for thinking he was calling for the abolition of specialist mental healthcare for that age group.
22 October 2007: Letter to Community Care: In your report on the A Life Like Any Other conference (Mental health laws need single act to tie up loose ends, 11 October) you state that I called for a single Act of Parliament to govern mental capacity issues and compulsory mental health treatment.
16 October 2007: Letter to national press: News that people from all backgrounds are consuming alcohol to excess fuels the need for a serious look at why those living in Britain are turning to the bottle.
27 September 2007: Letter to Community Care: The Race Equality Impact Assessment was hurried and seemed largely tokenistic.
8 August 2007. Letter to The Guardian: Veterans' mental health plight was foreseeable and foreseen
23 July 2007. Letter to The Telegragh: The figures you published yesterday showing a massive increase in the use of anti-depressants by children certainly make for grim reading, but they are, sadly, unsurprising.
17 July 2007. Letter to The Daily Mail: We welcome Sue Palmer’s broad ranging look at the many factors that can impact on our children’s mental wellbeing
4 July 2007. Letter to The Guardian: The National Audit Office’s finding that fewer GPs feel confident in their training to diagnose and manage dementia than three years ago is deeply worrying and also frustrating
8 June 2007. Letter to The Times: No doubt mental illness affected business productivity during the Victorian era, although we have no data to prove that. We do know that the current annual cost to the economy of mental ill-health is around £30 billion
6 June 2007. Letter to The Telegraph: Although many may find the idea of the government targeting people’s alcohol consumption at home intrusive, measures that raise the level of debate about alcohol consumption in the UK are not necessarily a bad thing
4 June 2007. Letter sent to The Sun: Mental Health Tests in Primary Schools
4 May 2007. Letter sent to The Telegraph: Save The Children Report
3 April 2007. Letter to The Guardian: After years of campaigning by organisations to make computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) available across the NHS.
23 March 2007. Letter sent to The Guardian: Census reveals wide extent of mixed sex psychiatric wards
12 March 2007. Letter sent to London Lite: Westminster City Council’s decision to stop “threatening and annoying” fundraisers only serves to penalise those charities who undertake street fundraising in a responsible and considered manner
28 February 2007. Letter sent to The Guardian: The new guidelines urging doctors and midwives to better care for mothers experiencing mental illness during pregnancy and in the first year after giving birth are good news for mothers and babies
14 Februray 2007. Letter sent to The Guardian: The Mental Health Foundation welcomes Unicef’s report into the well-being of children but yet again, it highlights our continued failure to protect the well-being of our young people
5 February 2007. Letter sent to The Times: Using police cells as a “place of safety” under the Mental Health Act for people in mental health crisis, is an outdated and inhumane way to care for the most vulnerable in our society
30 January 2007. Letter sent to Society Guardian: After 11 years of established disability discrimination legislation, it is sobering to see the extent of the continuing confusion and prejudice towards people with mental health problems
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