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Senior psychiatrist calls on the Government for urgent investment in cash-strapped frontline services

Writing exclusively for Mental Health Today Dr Kate Lovett, Dean and chief academic…

Dr Kate Lovett

Children’s Commissioner publishes major report on the impact of lockdown on children

With children back at school, now is the opportunity of "building back…

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Charities advise Government on tackling declining student mental wellbeing

Multiple charities have released a report addressing multiple issues of mental wellbeing…

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Will the call for a post-Covid ‘mental health renewal plan’ be heard by policymakers?

A Rethink Mental Illness survey found that of 1,400 people living with…

Mark Winstanley

Scotland’s MHA review: “I don’t think trauma-informed care will stop all the suffering we go through”

Graham Morgan has been living under a compulsory community treatment order for…

Graham Morgan

Physical health pandemic vs mental health ‘epidemic’: has our mental health been forgotten?

With NHS mental health services now belatedely re-opening, counsellor Abi Crossland-Otter makes…

Abi Crossland-Otter

What happens when catastrophic thoughts become a reality?

In the course of a few weeks it feels the world has…

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Average CTO duration in South London is four times longer than govenment projections

In the first large, observational study with a control group in England…

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NHS Long Term Plan ‘too generic’ to work effectively for LGBTQI+ people

In a report published today, the Women and Equalities Committee has found that LGBT…

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Children fear addiction to online gaming and the gambling-like behaviour it encourages

Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has published a report today which looks…

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