Sainsbury Centre Press Releases

Sainsbury Centre welcomes Justice Committee report on effective sentencing

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

The Government should seriously consider the Justice Committee's call for the NHS to be required under law to provide effective diversion schemes to keep people with mental health problems out of prison.

Welfare reform must focus on needs of people with mental health problems, says Sainsbury Centre

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Ministers must invest sufficiently in proven approaches to supporting people with mental health problems into employment.

Targeted approach needed to help black people with mental health problems to get work, says Sainsbury Centre

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Mental health and employment services should ensure they offer Black and minority ethnic people the right support to overcome the discrimination many face in the labour market.

Sainsbury Centre welcomes new report on prison mental health

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

The case for urgent investment in prison mental health care and the development of alternatives to prison has again been made clearly today.

Sainsbury Centre celebrates sixty years of the NHS

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

In a message to every primary care trust in England, the Sainsbury Centre called for a major new focus on supporting people with mental health problems to get and keep employment.

Sainsbury Centre welcomes psychiatrists' manifesto for fair deal for mental health

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

The everyday experience of too many people with all kinds of mental health problems is too often one of exclusion and discrimination.

Sainsbury Centre responds to Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review report

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT

People with severe and enduring mental health problems can and should benefit from the chance to control their own health care budgets.

Prisoners need urgent help for trauma and abuse, says Sainsbury Centre report

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT

From the Inside finds that the 'average' prisoner has a combination of mental health, substance use and other problems. Mental ill health is not the exception but the rule.

Call for urgent action to improve mental health of prisoners across Europe launched in UK

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT

The Trenčín Statement calls for all European nations to do more to find alternatives to prison for offenders with severe mental illnesses and for better care for prisoners who have any kind of mental health problem.

Cabinet champion needed for better mental health for all, says new coalition

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT

'A New Vision for Mental Health' calls for action to build on the successes of the National Service Framework for Mental Health, to put mental wellbeing at the centre of public policy.