Network of therapists to improve mental health care outcomes

MENTAL health practitioners are setting up a “database of safe psychiatrists” for people seeking therapeutic care rather than the mainstream model of medication and hospitalisation.

Basil Miller of the Wellbeing Foundation, a campaigning organisation founded by the late Dr Michael Corry, said it was imperative to set up a network of doctors and therapists people can trust.

“When people are depressed they don’t want to be just put on anti-depressants.