A campaign group has pleaded with the mayor of Lewisham to reverse a planned £250,000 cut to children’s mental health services. Save Lewisham Hospital says the cut is “short-sighted”, and that ...

Nearly 600 children have been waiting for more than a year for an appointment with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. According to data released in response to a parliamentary question ...

Emma’s daughter Jane* was referred to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Camhs) in Ballyfermot, Dublin by her GP six years ago. “She was cutting herself and very withdrawn.” They were ...

Vulnerable children are waiting almost three years to access mental health care in some parts of the UK while others are seen in as little as a week, The Independent can reveal. Psychiatrists ...

It is hard to think of anything more important than a child's mental health. During these formative years, what goes on in a young person’s mind is crucial for their future development, hopefully into ...

‘One way to get to the system very quickly is to attempt suicide,’ says Dr Jonathan Heatley, a GP in West Sussex. ‘Mental health services wash their hands. They just say “it doesn’t meet our criteria” ...

A doctor and a committee have urged Lewisham council to rethink a proposed cut to children and young people’s mental health services (CAMHS). Lewisham Council is planning to cut £250,000 from its ...

Poor facilities, long waiting lists and staff shortages in Wexford’s adolescent mental health services have been highlighted in new report by the Mental Health Commission (MHC). The MHC’s Child and ...

Children with mental health problems are not receiving treatment until they are in crisis and sometimes suicidal, doctors have told the BBC. A letter leaked to Panorama reveals at least one area's ...

A TEENAGER suffering from anorexia was left with her organs on the verge of failure as she waited 30 days in a hospital to be moved to a specialist clinic – despite the clinic having 12 vacant beds.

A Tasmanian mother has described the state's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) as "a joke" after she was told there was no psychologist on staff in the region to help her son. CAMHS ...

A campaign group has pleaded with the mayor of Lewisham to reverse a planned £250,000 cut to children’s mental health services. Save Lewisham Hospital says the cut is “short-sighted”, and that ...