LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND'S HERITAGE OF MENTAL HEALTH

EDM number 1550 in 2007-08, proposed by David Tredinnick on 12/05/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Health services and Mental health.

That this House welcomes the Progress in Our Age Exhibition touring Leicestershire and Rutland to highlight improvements in mental health, produced by Recovery Resources Charity; further welcomes the publication of the book Leicestershire and Rutland Heritage of Mental Health, an account of the history of the treatment of mental health problems and two pamphlets of the experiences of those suffering from mental health problems in these counties; congratulates the charity on the grants received from various sources including Comic Relief, Henry Smith Charity, CSIP and Attend; hopes that the charity will receive funding from Leicestershire Partnership and the Lottery in the future to enable the project to tour other counties in the UK; notes that the experience of Leicestershire and Rutland Heritage of Mental Health is that homeopathic remedies are especially useful in addressing suicidal feelings and in enabling compulsion to be lessened; and calls on the Government to encourage the use of homeopathy in psychiatric wards and doctors' surgeries.

This motion has been signed by a total of 5 MPs.