MENTAL health experts throughout North Yorkshire will meet today to discuss how the Government’s policy on the issue is affecting patients in our region.

Doctors, voluntary workers, council chiefs and executives from the region’s NHS trust will discuss the policy, called No Health Without Mental Health, in Harrogate while hearing first-hand accounts of those living with mental health problems.

Speaker Rebecca McEvoy, 40, from York, now works for a mental health organisation in the city after quitting a stressful job in London, when she herself was diagnosed as bi-polar.

She said health professionals needed to “treat each mental health case differently and remember that the person comes before the illness.”