mental health
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We brought MPs face-to-face with young PIP claimants
Last week myself and other young people living with severe mental illness took to Parliament to speak with MPs face-to-face about the dangers of the planned disability cuts. Continue reading
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Fixing the broken mental health system
Did you know that the number of children referred to emergency mental healthcare has soared by more than 50% in three years? Continue reading
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False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare
The report examines the implementation and impacts of the Prevent duty in the NHS, looking at the interaction between the duty and other professional duties. It analyses and gives a breakdown of the figures relating to the number of referrals to Prevent across a number of NHS Trusts, discussing the mental health and racialised implications… Continue reading
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The Lowdown: What’s the limit on care now?
28 May 2020 — The Lowdown The NHS Support Federation This week we can reveal that almost a billion pounds worth of debt is weighing down local commissioners as they start to plan care for the next year – with 7 million patients now on growing waiting lists. This week, we also follow-up on the Continue reading
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Take our ‘treatment’ or we’ll stop your benefits, Tories threaten mentally ill By Louise McCudden
Proposals to strip benefits from depressed people who ‘refuse’ treatment are unethical, ignore root causes, and are likely to force people into inappropriate treatment or penury. Continue reading
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Mental health – a Cinderella service no more? By Alex Langford
Acknowledging the need to improve mental health services by any politician is a positive step. For such a policy to attract the Deputy Prime Minister himself is even better. So why has the reaction from mental health professionals been at best cautiously muted, and at worst dismissive? Continue reading
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Britain: Mental health services reach breaking point By Mark Blackwood
The emotional support charity Samaritans is currently receiving a call every six seconds to its 24-hour telephone helpline, from people in distress, feeling suicidal or struggling to cope. Last year, some 600,000 people expressing suicidal feelings called the charity. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 