Victoria Macdonald
There’s the married couple, Jeremy Hunt and Norman Lamb. Then a third person, Andy Burnham, comes a long to spice things up. That’s what today’s #healthdebate looked like.
Ministers insist the government has not cut spending on mental health services. So where is the evidence?
A major inquiry has found the government at risk of breaching human rights over repeated failures to learn lessons in preventing tragedies of the mentally ill behind bars.
Adrian Kelly has been sober for nearly two years after battling an alcohol addiction that nearly killed him. Memories are hazy, but his drinking diaries reveal the extent of his illness at its worst.
As a new report points out serious failings in children’s mental health services, one teenager tells Channel 4 News about being sent to A&E by his headteacher and told to stop “blackmailing” teachers.
World Mental Health Day drove a massive social media spike in people discussing schizophrenia – but what is it like living with the condition? Channel 4 News spoke to two musicians.
A government pledge to improve access to mental health treatments by bringing in targets is widely welcomed. But it falls short when it comes to talking therapies for teens and children, say experts.
Almost two thirds of mental health trusts in England that responded to a Channel 4 News freedom of information request say their funding has been cut, with a shortage of beds threatening patient care.
Around 70m working days were lost last year because of mental health and England’s chief medical officer says the NHS and employers need to do more to help support sufferers at work.
Learning how to deal with love and relationships is no easy matter when one or both of those involved has dementia – finds the last in our series of reports on love and sex when we’re over 60.
Last year, we filmed with Abdullahi, a mentally ill Somali man who had been in chains or 17 years. But one mental health nurse has changed his life forever.
A UN committee says we should consider measures beyond GDP to really see how successful, wealthy and happy a nation is. Here’s why.
No-one has died due to radiation released after the Fukushima nuclear crisis and this is unlikely to change, the UN says. But the mental health impact for the nuclear evacuees is a different story.
According to ONS figures, commuters have higher anxiety levels – and how you travel to work, and for how long, can alter your stress levels. Take the Channel 4 News quiz to see how you fare.
Former England cricket captain Mike Brearley tells Channel 4 News that batsmen face a more “dramatic” form of failure – as Jonathan Trott leaves the Ashes due to “stress-related illness”.