Exclusive The headline-grabbing rollout of the Government’s flagship psychological therapies programme has not been funded by new money and comes at the expense of existing mental health initiatives, Pulse can reveal.

GPs should consider carefully the increased risk of bleeding and stroke with newer antidepressants before prescribing them, say US researchers.

QOF questions designed to screen for depression are providing substandard results when used for people with diabetes, researchers have claimed.

Women who use antidepressants during pregnancy have an increased risk of gestational hypertension of up to 80%, a case-control study has found.

A major NHS study into whether exercise can improve depression has failed to show any clinical benefit at all from increasing activity levels, UK researchers claim.

Three examples for GP commissioners, provided by the Joint Commissioning Panel on Mental Health.

Professor David Peters discusses the options available to GP commissioners as they aim to ease pressures on the NHS

With sickness absence an increasingly expensive problem for the NHS, Dr James Cowling gives three examples of patients his service helped back to work and health

Mental health GPSI Dr John Lewis offers his hints on managing depression in this vulnerable group

You have been approached by a solicitor acting for a patient to make an assessment of their mental capacity to make a will and lasting power of attorney, but are uncomfortable about agreeing. What should you do?

Decisions surrounding consent and capacity are often complex, with many grey areas. Dr Mary Church offers her advice on some tricky scenarios

A patient treated for depression when they were a teenager wants this diagnosis removed from his medical record. The patient – now in their thirties – has had no recurrence of depression, but what should you do? Our legal expert advises.