Improving the lives of people affected by mental illness

• New: Community Mental Health Teams
• New: Minds, Myths and Me: fact pack for young carers
• New:  Information for parents and young people in British Sign Language
• The Mind: A User's Guide. An accessible, jargon-free reference guide to mental health. £11.99 inc. p&p

Select a topic for further information:

• New: 2009 CT1 Recruitment 

• New: RCPsych Awards: Celebrating excellence in psychiatry

• New: November eNewsletter

• New: Assessments Online for WPBA

• New: Trainee Registration

• Adopt-a-book  

• GMC revalidation for psychiatrists 

• Friendly, professional and qualified – contact our Library staff with your queries.

• Podcasts: Susham Gupta discusses Alcohol-related dementia: a 21st-century silent epidemic? with Mark Salter
• Study reveals rising suicide rate among older South Asian women
• Childhood trauma may increase risk of psychotic experiences
• Alcohol-related admissions at London hospital ‘treble in last four years’
• Older men more likely to father a child with autistic spectrum disorder

• New: Northern Ireland launch Fair Deal
• New: on CPD online: Giving feedback to trainees 

• Mental Health Act 2007 Amendments: DH transitional arrangements

• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) DH Newsletter August 2008
• RCPsych welcomes ruling that plans to give UK-trained doctors priority in applying for jobs was ''wrong and unlawful''