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Spring 2012 Newsletter is now available
(26/12/2012)
‘Women’s Coffee Morning’ in celebration of WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL DAY
(03/02/2012)
NHS Equality Delivery System Survey
(03/02/2012)
Involvement Opportunity - Herts Equality Council
(03/02/2012)
NSUN - Pat's Petition
(01/02/2012)
NSUN Newsletter 30/1/12
(31/01/2012)
Involvement Opportunity - Herts Partnership FT
(31/01/2012)
Job Opportunity - BCA Learning Manager
(31/01/2012)
Bishops Stortford Day Opportunities Open Meeting - Minutes
(31/01/2012)
Welwyn & Hatfield Day Opportunities Open Meeting - Minutes
(30/01/2012)
Watford Day Opportunities Open Meeting - Minutes
(30/01/2012)
Ware Day Opportunities Open Meeting - Minutes
(30/01/2012)
North Herts & Stevenage Day Opportunities Open Meeting - Minutes
(30/01/2012)
Hemel Hempstead Day Opportunities Open Meeting - Minutes
(30/01/2012)
Cheshunt Day Opportunities Open Meeting - Minutes
(30/01/2012)
New Training: The Transgender Journey
(27/01/2012)
NSUN News Extra & Annual Survey - Jan 2012
(25/01/2012)
Sustainable Cost Improvement Programmes - Audit Commission
(25/01/2012)
Involvement Opportunity - Herts Partnership FT
(25/01/2012)
Hertfordhire Partnership FT Involvement - January 2012
(25/01/2012)
Involvement Opportunity - Herts Partnership FT
(25/01/2012)
New Training : Mentally Healthy Workplaces
(25/01/2012)
Herts JCT Care Group Public Engagement Meetings - February 2012
(23/01/2012)
NSUN Newsletter 23/1/12
(23/01/2012)
VENUE CORRECTION : Bishop Stortford Service User Forum
(23/01/2012)
Involvement Opportunity - Arts Networks & Mental Health
(20/01/2012)
Guideposts Newsletter - Jan 2012
(19/01/2012)
Mental Health & Wellbeing Meeting - Hitchin
(19/01/2012)
LGBT History Month - Book Readings
(18/01/2012)
Live Consultations - National LGB&T Partnership
(18/01/2012)
Do you need help to stay warm this winter?
(16/01/2012)
NSUN Newsletter 16/1/12
(16/01/2012)
Job Opportunity - Service User Council Administrator
(16/01/2012)
County Council Scrutiny Committee - Your Views Wanted
(13/01/2012)
NSUN Newsletter 9/1/12
(09/01/2012)
NSUN Newsletter 3/1/12
(09/01/2012)
Come Out & Play - Presentations Now Available
(06/01/2012)
NSUN Newsletter
(03/01/2012)
Job Opportunity - Mental Health Project Worker
(03/01/2012)
NSUN News Extra December 2011
(24/12/2011)
Views and Experiences wanted on Psychosis or Schizophrenia
(24/12/2011)
Have your say - Drug and Alcohol Provision in HMP The Mount
(23/12/2011)
Involvement Opportunity - Ministerial Advisory Group on Mental Health Strategy
(23/12/2011)
Carers In Hertfordshire Winter Carewaves Newsletter
(22/12/2011)
Hertfordshire CVS - Promoting and developing voluntary activity across Hertfordshire
(22/12/2011)
Emergence Arts & Social Event - 19th December ' 11
(10/12/2011)
Involvement Opportunity - Herts Partnership FT
(05/12/2011)
It's 'Time to Talk' - First Event
(01/12/2011)
Mental Health Research Network Medication Event
(29/11/2011)
Views wanted on Mental Health day opportunities
(23/11/2011)
Involvement Opportunity - Flexicare Conference
(22/11/2011)
Celebrate Africa Day - Stevenage 3rd December
(22/11/2011)
NHS Equality Delivery Workshop Information
(22/11/2011)
Herts Partnership Carer Involvement Opportunity
(15/11/2011)
Herts Partnership FT Involvement Opportunities
(15/11/2011)
Involvement Opportunity - Experience of CATT / MHLT Services
(14/11/2011)
Involvement Opportunity - Leading by Design
(14/11/2011)
The Transgender Journey - New Training Course
(10/11/2011)
Herts JCT Quarterly Public Meetings Information
(03/11/2011)
Herts Mind Network Looking for a Part-Time Vocational Advisor
(31/10/2011)
Job opportunity at Leeming Road Project in Borehamwood
(31/10/2011)
New Powers for the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO)
(21/10/2011)
Full Information Pack for Viewpoint AGM 25th November 2011
(18/10/2011)
Would you like to be involved in the changes to the Causeway and Long Stay Rehab
(17/10/2011)
FRANK Website Relaunch - Monday 17th October
(14/10/2011)
National Survivor User Network Newsletter October 2011
(13/10/2011)
Free Employment Advice Fair & Advisory sessions - 18th October, Old Free School, Watford
(13/10/2011)
Refuge EP 'Open Minds' Download for free
(06/10/2011)
Does income inequality cause health and social problems?
(06/10/2011)
Service User Experience in Mental Health Conference
(06/10/2011)
National Survivor User Network (NSUN) are looking for Trustees
(06/10/2011)
Mental Health First Aid Training
(05/10/2011)
October is Black History Month
(05/10/2011)
We need you as a Trustee!
(27/09/2011)
Art from Nature workshops
(26/09/2011)
Cold Baths Don't Work
(26/09/2011)
World Mental Health Day - Letchworth 9th October
(26/09/2011)
Viewpoint Housing Day on October 4th
(20/09/2011)
Alcohol abuse and older people course 18th Oct 2011
(15/09/2011)
Research opportunity women and domestic violence
(15/09/2011)
Latest Guideposts Trust Newsletter now available
(13/09/2011)
Young person's meeting place Mind in Ware
(13/09/2011)
Housing Advice Day in North Herts
(13/09/2011)
Herts and Minds - Local mental health history Exhibition
(13/09/2011)
New Book: Our Encounters with Madness
(06/09/2011)
HPFT Annual Members Day – 8th October 2011
(01/09/2011)
Watford Asian Community Care presents DIGNITY
(23/08/2011)
Job Opportunities with Community Action Hertsmere
(16/08/2011)
Care Quality Commission: Mental Health Survey
(16/08/2011)
Personal Health Budgets report
(16/08/2011)
Mental Health Resistance Network event
(16/08/2011)
In-patient women and their safety
(16/08/2011)
Survivors Research Survey
(16/08/2011)
National Survivor User Network (NSUN) AGM 1st Nov
(16/08/2011)
Hertfordshire Acute Bed provision Review by Tribal
(05/08/2011)
KALEIDOSCOPE ENTERPRISE QUIZ NIGHT 12TH AUG
(04/08/2011)
LGBT conference Cardiff 31st - Aug-2nd Sept 2011
(04/08/2011)
MP response around minimum wage disappoints
(30/07/2011)
Mental Health Awareness Training for Housing Staff
(25/07/2011)
The Value of Peer Support (write up of event)
(18/07/2011)
No Health without Mental health - two briefings
(18/07/2011)
Rapid HIV testing service
(16/06/2011)
Anger Management course
(08/06/2011)
Alcohol Awareness Month June
(31/05/2011)
Service Users’ Rehabilitation and Recovery Report for Hertfordshire
(27/05/2011)
Recovery Day 10th June
(26/05/2011)
New Causeway Proposals - IMPORTANT
(20/05/2011)
Mental Health Awareness Week 23-30 May 2011: Sleep
(16/05/2011)
Transgender Journey Training - New course available
(16/05/2011)
One In Four Conference 16th May 2011
(05/05/2011)
CQC publishes last Count Me In Census
(04/05/2011)
The National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum
(04/05/2011)
Wanted - Trustee for Mind's Council of Management
(04/05/2011)
Viewpoint housing forum survey
(03/05/2011)
Workshop Understanding & Working with Paranoia
(27/04/2011)
Creative Awareness Project
(17/03/2011)
National Perinatal Mental Health Project Report
(15/03/2011)
GP commissioning
(15/03/2011)
First Person Plural DVD
(15/03/2011)
Voluntary Sector Cuts - Tell your story
(28/02/2011)
Guide to Mental Health & Debt
(28/02/2011)
Fundamental Rights - Take part in research
(28/02/2011)
Viewpoint signs up to Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
(22/02/2011)
Stop homophobic and transphobic hate crimes
(14/02/2011)
Herts Wellbeing Website - Latest Update
(01/02/2011)
Katherine is our new Accommodation Worker
(21/12/2010)
Healthy lives, healthy people: consultation on the funding and commissioning routes for public health
(21/12/2010)
Partners in Policymaking Course in Loughborough
(10/12/2010)
Hertfordshire Accommodation Strategy needs your views
(06/12/2010)
Winter 2010/11 Newsletter is now available
(26/11/2010)
Viewpoint Questionnaire.. about us!
(17/11/2010)
Your Help needed for the Early Intevention in Psychosis Review
(12/10/2010)
Social enterprise firms key in jobs market - Duncan smith
(28/09/2010)
Summer 2010 Newsletter now available
(11/06/2010)
New Horizons: a shared vision for mental health
(12/12/2009)
New minority ethnic communities forums looking for recruits
(30/11/2009)
DISABILITY HATE CRIME: “WE MUST IMPROVE” SAYS HERTFORDSHIRE
(11/11/2009)
People with views on Psychological Therapies wanted
(12/10/2009)
Troops' mental care failings 'national scandal'
(17/07/2009)
Monumental new band for local musician Bob Houlston
(26/05/2009)
Prison Reform Trust report criticises the number of mentally ill in jails
(04/02/2009)
MP speaks up for Mental Health Advocacy
(16/01/2009)
Exercise aids depression, say GPs
(08/02/2008)
Support for people with Bipolar in West Herts
(16/01/2008)
Mental Health Act FAQs
(15/01/2008)
HMN Launch
(15/01/2008)
Big boost for local mental health services on the way
(08/11/2007)
Prison 'default' for mentally ill
(24/10/2007)
Illness mental at work: confronting the stigma
(11/10/2007)
Government releases mental health stigma information flim
(07/08/2007)
New research shows economic case for mental health service investment
(03/08/2007)
Letchworth service users dig new garden
(02/08/2007)
Hertfordshire becomes a national pilot for talking therapy projects
(31/07/2007)
New consortium wins £18 million bid to fight growing problem of mental health discrimination
(25/07/2007)
Compromise on mental health bill
(20/06/2007)
Award nod for mental health survivor
(24/04/2007)
Charles Walker MP stands up against stigma
(17/04/2007)
Hertfordshire ahead of the game
(28/03/2007)
Review of Independent Living Funds published today
(16/03/2007)
Social care hit by NHS deficits
(16/03/2007)
'Personal' health websites sought
(07/03/2007)
NHS 'paying too much for drugs'
(20/02/2007)
Mental health law plan challenged
(19/02/2007)
VIEWPOINT AWARDS 2006
(14/12/2006)
Gene link to schizophrenia found
(30/10/2006)
Mental health services 'failing'
(02/10/2006)
Money diverted from mental health, finds new survey
(08/08/2006)
Psychiatric hospital campaigners' bed push challenge
(08/08/2006)
Primary Care mental health pilot
(03/07/2006)
Hertfordshire clients and carers unite for their Services
(23/05/2006)
Local clients and carers to demonstrate against cuts
(10/05/2006)
Hertfordshire faces significant cuts to mental health finances
(20/03/2006)
FEATURE: Friends tuk to the road
(05/03/2006)
ARTICLE: The stigma of Psychiatric drugs
(01/03/2006)
Almost 80 MPs condemn mental health bill
(24/02/2006)
FEATURE: Experience of Self Harm (BEWARE, MAY TRIGGER)
(21/02/2006)
FEATURE: New Zealand :- Community acute houses a positive trend
(13/02/2006)
Local band 'Lithium' Rock for mental health!
(06/02/2006)
Better services and more choice, on your doorstep - new White Paper
(01/02/2006)
FEATURE: Men recovering from mental health problems support in East London
(25/01/2006)
Mind over matter: improving media reporting of mental health
(24/01/2006)
Viewpoint moves forwards with RSS!
(23/01/2006)
New rights under the Mental Capacity Act
(23/01/2006)
ARTICLE: Managing Bipolar Disorder
(23/01/2006)
FEATURE: ENGLAND:- ‘Change attitudes’ call on mental health
(16/01/2006)
FEATURE: AMERICA:- Family education series on mental illness to be offered
(13/01/2006)
Light cafe to beat winter blues
(09/01/2006)
Patients and staff to benefit from £1.2 million programme to improve mental health hospitals
(05/01/2006)
Mental health overhaul demanded
(05/01/2006)
Countryside boosts mental health
(05/01/2006)
Crisis centres, retreats and "sanctuaries" should replace psychiatric hospitals, report urges
(13/12/2005)
Access all ages art and creative writing competition
(22/11/2005)
Website support for self-harmers
(17/11/2005)
Plans unveiled to resolve "tensions" between psychiatrists and patients
(15/11/2005)
Can Cannabis treble the risk of developing Schizophrenia?
(11/11/2005)
Nurse and pharmacist prescribing powers extended
(11/11/2005)
Promoting the Public's Mental Health: a changing mentality
(27/10/2005)
Medicines which affect the mind: a guide for service users
(25/10/2005)
European Commission adopts Green Paper on mental health
(24/10/2005)
Summer 2005 Newsletter now available!
(21/07/2005)
Mental Health Bill Concessions Fail To Meet Serious Concerns, Says Alliance
(18/07/2005)
Draft Mental Health Bill: Royal College of Psychiatrists disappointed at Government's response
(18/07/2005)
Next steps for Mental Health Bill
(13/07/2005)
Antidepressants induce remission in most patients
(13/07/2005)
Key targets hit in mental health reform programme
(12/07/2005)
Child early intervention programmes make for healthier adults
(07/07/2005)
Psychiatrists should read more novels to understand patients, conference hears
(01/07/2005)
Mental health care 'not holistic'
(29/06/2005)
Mental health charity warns of consequences of online gambling
(28/06/2005)
WATFORD - Volunteers dig deep to create a new garden
(23/06/2005)
Sleep studied as potential treatment for depression
(22/06/2005)
Healthy employees walk to work
(16/06/2005)
Fish maintain your Brain
(16/06/2005)
Garden theory over mental health
(02/06/2005)
Clients' project is a blooming sucess!
(02/06/2005)
Schizophrenia more common in developed nations
(01/06/2005)
Badly managed workplace stress costs Britain billions
(17/05/2005)
'Hearing voices' group set up for people who are deaf
(16/05/2005)
Mental Health Alliance welcomes scrutiny committee report into Draft Mental Health Bill
(30/03/2005)
Success story for self-help
(02/02/2005)
World Mental Health Day in Watford
(02/12/2004)
Viewpoint Website Countdown!
(16/11/2004)