According to analysis published in the British Medical Journal, that’s the rather stark fact about mental health funding in the UK.
So, this week’s #TOTW is:
“For far too long mental health has been a bit of a taboo subject…” via @bbchealth #MentalHealth
This week, the Deputy Prime Minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, launched a manifesto promise to set up a mental health research fund, and to add a further £50 millions to the current level of expenditure by the year 2020. I’m not writing this blog from a political standpoint, merely the fact that the guy has stuck his head above the parapet and stated what he would like to see happen i.e. for spending on mental health research in the UK to be increased. He also stated that:
“…we should understand mental health just as well as we understand physical health. I want us to be able to talk about, analyse and treat depression just as we treat diabetes. For far too long mental health has been a bit of a taboo subject – yet it affects one in four people in this country.”
Mark Winstanley, chief executive of the mental health charity Rethink Mental Illness also stated:
“It’s a scandal that our understanding of mental illness and the best treatments, still lags so far behind our understanding of physical illnesses.”
Now you can’t really disagree with that can you?
If so, then please feel free to comment on what *YOU* think.
radiographerben 