Mental health Specialty is one of 30 specialties which bring together communities of clinical practice to provide national networks of research expertise. Surely it’s made up of researchinterested clinicians and practitioners at both national and local levels. National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network has today released its first podcast as part of a series of monthly audio bites to inform about the discovery of research. Whenever eating disorders and personality disorders, we oversee research that deals with a variety of conditions similar to anxiety. It’s along period.
Just 8 of the health research budget is spent on mental health research.
It equates to just 75 spent per person affected by mental illness, with that said, this may sound substantial.
MQ, a mental health research charity, found that an average of 115m is spent on research any year. For cancer research this figure is almost 150 times more, at 1571 spent per patient. That’s why MQ was set up. Certainly, compare that with the equivalent charitable donation for cancer. In the UK, for almost any 1 spent by the government on mental health research, the general public donates just 3p, less than half a penny. Loads of us are aware that there is a fundamental issue underlying these figures the lack of charitable funding in the mental health sector. For a whileside the government, charities play a vital role in driving research funding and advances in care. MQ’s analysis did not include pharmaceutical for a while being that it is not available at a UK level. There’s another missing piece of this picture. What we do know is that progress in drug development in this location of mental health has slowed, pharmaceutical companies are pulling out and potential advances beyond doubt is slipping further away.
Lack of overall progress in mental health research affects the potential for development. We need to understand exactly what actually was being spent. We can get a handle on the gaps, when we know what we are spending and how.
