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The potential of AI for mental health services

IAPT services are overburdened and are struggling to keep up with seemingly…

Ed Brown

Bringing victims of domestic abuse into the light during lockdown

Addressing the rocketing up of instances of domestic abuse over the last year,…

Ed Brown

Knowing yourself as an LGBT+ asylum seeker

Dane Buckley, the support services manager at the UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration…

Ed Brown

A severe shortage in hospital beds is leaving patients without treatment

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has released the findings of a survey…

Ed Brown

Young people are being failed by the mental health system – there is another way

Many young people are stuck in a postcode lottery mental health system,…

LeeMC2022

Nearly half of ICU staff report signs of severe depression and PTSD

New research published by King's College has revealed that almost half of…

Ed Brown

Transform healthcare services to improve mental health support, say experts

As we stumble into 2021 thoroughly exasperated from the year that has…

Ed Brown

New NHS service to improve veteran mental health

Veterans experience high levels of mental health problems and sometimes find it…

Ed Brown

Covid-19 is an addiction crisis – we need a better funded and integrated care service

Professor Julia Sinclair, chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists addictions faculty,…

Julia Sinclair

It is going to be a ‘tough few weeks ahead’, say mental health charities

The lockdown in the spring has been widely linked to a mental…

LeeMC2022