Rethink and SANE in bed with pharma

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Choosing Well ......goes to Jansen UK web site


An interactive map was recently published by the Choosing Well? Campaign (www.choosingwell.co.uk), a Janssen initiative in association with the leading mental health charities Rethink and SANE, and is designed to highlight local and regional disparities in care currently being provided for people in England with schizophrenia









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Mental health and the Choosing Well? campaign



The APPG on mental health works hard to raise the profile of mental health in Parliament and holds frequent meetings and events to promote understanding of key issues. In the last Parliament, the group produced a powerful survey on the mental health of MPs, which concluded that the law forcing MPs to give up their seat for life if they are sectioned under the Mental Health Act for six months is discriminatory and urgently needs to be changed. As a group member, I will be looking to promote the recommendations made in this report, in particular around the need to challenge stigma and discrimination in Parliament.



Another key mental health issue the APPG is keen to raise awareness of is schizophrenia. 1 in 100 people are affected by schizophrenia and they should all have choice and access to the best possible care.





An interactive map was recently published by the Choosing Well? Campaign (www.choosingwell.co.uk), a Janssen initiative in association with the leading mental health charities Rethink and SANE, and is designed to highlight local and regional disparities in care currently being provided for people in England with schizophrenia.



The website brings together, for the first time, key data from multiple organisations and sources and thereby provides the broadest picture yet of how schizophrenia is currently being managed in England. Whilst encouraging best practice in the management of schizophrenia, the website highlights the role that 'choice' can play in ensuring the best possible standard of care and positive long term outcomes. This choice agenda is helping to extend a key part of the NHS reforms to mental health services, enabling people to make decisions on how and where they receive treatment.