Tag Archives: Mental Health

Global Mental Health, Time for Action

Baroness Murphy 05/10/2011 – 10:10 am

Lord Crisp is leading a debate tomorrow on the global impact of the five leading chronic diseases -- cancer, diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease and mental illness, so called NCDs (non-communicable diseases, to distinguish them from communicable, ie infectious diseases). This follows on from a recent high level meeting of the UN at which the increasing problems of lifestyle related diseas […]

A Prayer for Welfare Reform

Baroness Murphy 16/03/2011 – 11:30 am

I shall be participating in a “Prayer to Annul” debate this evening. This weird wording means a debate raised to protest against a negative statutory instrument. Under the standard negative procedure, the SI is annulled if the prayer motion is agreed by the House within 40 days of the SI being laid. Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope has tabled a potentially fatal “Prayer” against SI 2011 No 22 […]

Mental health and Parliament

Lord Norton 20/07/2008 – 9:11 pm

According to The Sunday Times, the Government is planning to change the law so that people who have had certain mental health problems and are presently barred from being elected to Parliament can stand for election.  People who have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act are barred from standing even if they have made a full recovery. The Government's proposals strike me as eminently sens […]

Stuck in Grand Committee

Baroness Murphy 01/05/2008 – 3:45 pm

I feel rather guilty for not keeping up with my blogging this last few days. I have the excuse I was away ill last week but this week I have been busy two afternoons and evenings with Grand Committee in the Moses Room on the Health and Social Care Bill. The Moses Room is an extravagantly decorated committee room with 3 enormous wall size Victorian paintings, the main one of Moses bringing down th […]