MPs write on mental health

A group of MPs has published a collection of essays about their personal and professional experiences of a range of mental health issues. However, at a meeting of mental health experts at the House of Commons Westminster, organised by national think-tank the Centre for Mental Health, to mark the publication, Professor Philip Sugarman, chief executive of mental health charity, St Andrew’s Healthcare, asked why NHS mental health expenditure has shrunk in the last year, despite the government’s commitment to maintain mental health funding and the unprecedented comments by sitting MPs in the House of Commons last September.