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WaMH in PC Facebook Page to Go Live on Monday

Our new WaMH in PC Facebook page will go live next Monday as part of our aim to promote primary mental health care across Wales.

We'll be using Facebook to highlight the work we do to improve primary mental health care across the country and you'll be able to use our page to gain access to all the information we currently have on our website.

Each day we'll be updating our page with links to the various sections and publications on our site and to let you know about our upcoming events and news concerning mental health in Wales.

It's simple to find us, all you have to do is search for "WaMH in PC" in your Facebook search bar - but in case you forget our new address is www.facebook.com/wamhinpc.

We'll also be adding Like and Logo buttons to our site to help you gain easy access to our new page and share it's contents with your own Facebook Friends and colleagues.

We're always looking to develop new ways of discussing mental health problems in primary care settings and we're hoping that from Monday Facebook will help us reach a wider audience.

If you've got any suggestions about the kinds of information you'd like us to put up on Facebook please contact our Project Manager Lesley Hills at lhills@rcgp.org.uk.

WaMH in PC Facebook Update

As announced earlier this week - WaMH in PC is set to join Facebook as part of our aim to promote primary mental health care across Wales.

Our new Facebook page will be going live on Monday 7th May and we'll be updating this website by adding various Facebook buttons to our pages.

These buttons will includes various Like and Logo buttons which you can use to help yourself and others find our new page on Facebook - so please look out for them from next week and feel free to click and help spread the word.

We're always looking to develop new ways of discussing mental health problems in primary care settings and hopefully Facebook will help us reach a wider audience who can help us achieve this and our other goals.

If you've got any suggestions about the kinds of information you'd like us to put up on Facebook please contact our Project Manager Lesley Hills at lhills@rcgp.org.uk.

Information Sheet 11 - The Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 Issue 2

Our latest Information Sheet is a briefing note for GPs and primary care practitioners about The Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.

The Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 introduces a number of important changes relating to the assessment and treatment of people with mental health problems across Wales.

It specifically aims to improve and target primary and secondary mental health services across the country and started to make changes from January this year.

The aim of Information Sheet 11 - The Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 Issue 2 provides notes for mental health care professionals about the first 4 parts of this legislation which wil all have come into effect by the end of this year.

Our Information Sheets are part of our aim to improve mental health services and have been developed to provide valuable information, training and support tools on primary care mental health in Wales.

The publication of our Information Sheets come under the set objectives or our Gold Standard Project which has set the goal of providing good communication on mental health issues at the heart of its work.

All our Information Sheets are available to download and view from our Information Sheets page and for further information about the measure please visit our Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.

If you have any questions about Information Sheet 11 or trouble downloading it please contact our Project Manager Lesley Hills via email at lhills@rcgp.org.uk or on 029 2050 4516.