underfunded and under helped, the NHS’s mental health sector is deteriorating our society
‘Setting out to supply good health care to all’ is what the founder of the NHS (Aneurin Bevan) wanted to accomplish. The NHS intentions demonstrated great altruism and is a hugely ambitious plan to achieve but can it be actualised? Our population has flourished, unfortunately so has our mental health problems, yet the funding has not kept up with the increasing demand of our society's needs. We are spending more than ever, according to The King's Fund charity, however it is not sufficient to enable the population mental stability. It’s paramount the NHS acquires the resources it needs. Firstly, starting off with a well needed increase of specialist …show more content…
Mental health problems are on the rise and people being helped is on an all time low . with a increase of 37% since 2006 of middle aged men committing suicide due to their mental health and it will continue to increase if we do not act now. Are we not crying out enough for our government to put a plan in place to protect us from these life threatening controversies? Although the NHS was not set up to tend to mental health patients it was solely there to in 1948 there wasn't a wealth of knowledge surrounding it . We now have the resources and the ability to establish the cause of these illnesses to prevent them, yet why aren't we doing anything about it? To compare a broken arm with feelings of paranoia and delusions is incomparable and both should warrant the need for help yet there is a certain taboo that disables people to see this. Yet if it were you or your child suffering with severe depression along with the other 80,000 children in the UK wouldn't you want the best care for them or even some reassurance that they would be able to get the help they needed before it was too late. Spending as little as £2.01 on each child the UK and an enormous decrease in the number of specialist nurses More money or more crime? If you’re kidneys fail you, help is received, if your mental stability fails, you how far do you have to go to to get help you rightfully need? Self harm, suicide, Murder? Our personal safety in jeopardy as a result of the underfunded mental health sector. This is a pressing issue that features an abundance of the time in the news. Recently, Jeroen Ensink, a lecturer, was violently killed. The culprit, a student of 23 years of age, was described as psychotic and got little succour from
‘Setting out to supply good health care to all’ is what the founder of the NHS (Aneurin Bevan) wanted to accomplish. The NHS intentions demonstrated great altruism and is a hugely ambitious plan to achieve but can it be actualised? Our population has flourished, unfortunately so has our mental health problems, yet the funding has not kept up with the increasing demand of our society's needs. We are spending more than ever, according to The King's Fund charity, however it is not sufficient to enable the population mental stability. It’s paramount the NHS acquires the resources it needs. Firstly, starting off with a well needed increase of specialist …show more content…
Mental health problems are on the rise and people being helped is on an all time low . with a increase of 37% since 2006 of middle aged men committing suicide due to their mental health and it will continue to increase if we do not act now. Are we not crying out enough for our government to put a plan in place to protect us from these life threatening controversies? Although the NHS was not set up to tend to mental health patients it was solely there to in 1948 there wasn't a wealth of knowledge surrounding it . We now have the resources and the ability to establish the cause of these illnesses to prevent them, yet why aren't we doing anything about it? To compare a broken arm with feelings of paranoia and delusions is incomparable and both should warrant the need for help yet there is a certain taboo that disables people to see this. Yet if it were you or your child suffering with severe depression along with the other 80,000 children in the UK wouldn't you want the best care for them or even some reassurance that they would be able to get the help they needed before it was too late. Spending as little as £2.01 on each child the UK and an enormous decrease in the number of specialist nurses More money or more crime? If you’re kidneys fail you, help is received, if your mental stability fails, you how far do you have to go to to get help you rightfully need? Self harm, suicide, Murder? Our personal safety in jeopardy as a result of the underfunded mental health sector. This is a pressing issue that features an abundance of the time in the news. Recently, Jeroen Ensink, a lecturer, was violently killed. The culprit, a student of 23 years of age, was described as psychotic and got little succour from