Belfast set for mental health investment
18 November 2008
 Belfast is set to benefit from £580 million of investment in its health services over the next ten years, it has been reported. Health minister Michael McGimpsey made the announcement while cutting the first sod for the new Mental Health Facility for Adolescents and Children and Families in south Belfast.The Belfast Telegraph reports that key projects under the new investment will include a new mental health inpatient unit and community facilities for Belfast.Mr McGimpsey told the newspaper: "This is only part of a major investment in mental health facilities planned over the next ten years. "These services will make a real and lasting difference to patients and their families in an area of care which has for too long been neglected and under-funded."The National Autistic Society in Northern Ireland recently claimed that up to 17,000 people with the condition are getting a lack of support.It told the newspaper that "two-thirds of adults" with autism have experienced severe mental difficulties "due to lack of support". © 2008 Adfero Ltd. All rights reserved. Any views and opinions expressed in news articles are not those of Craegmoor Limited and its associated companies. News supplied by Adfero DirectNews.
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