Chancellor urged to invest in children’s mental health services
Anna Freud, The National Children's Bureau and Young Minds are among those backing a letter directed to Philip Hammond and Prime Minister Theresa May.
Unfair British care: racial inequality in mental health underlined in EHRC report
Black adults least likely to have access to counselling, therapy or medication and most likely to be detained for their mental health.
Athlete anorexia highlighted by Olympian Colin Jackson
British Olympian Colin Jackson and former Premier League footballer Clarke Carlisle discussed anorexia and suicide at a special event staged for October's Black History Month.
Patients newly discharged from psychiatric hospital are at higher risk of suicide, so why do they receive so little aftercare?
Joy Hibbins, who runs a Suicide Crisis Centre in Gloucestershire, reflects on her experience of being discharged from a psychiatric hospital with little to no aftercare.
‘Teach me well’ – your chance to shape the mental health content in the new national curriculum
Find out the key points in the government's draft plans and take our ten question survey.
When will the prison service act upon the vulnerability of transgender people?
The Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service have released a report about suicide and self-harm in prisons. Yet, transgender people, an extremely vulnerable group, are excluded.
Keeping it all together: mental health in the medical workforce
You can’t pour from an empty cup – but how does this apply to medical professionals?
Mind: Universal Credit may undermine government’s mental health ambitions
People are fearful of opening letters about their benefits or struggle to understand them when they do.
The case for procrastination
Michael O'Sullivan, a mental health therapist for NHS Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, writes on the merits of procrastination.
ECT – an American’s odyssey
Chris Dubey recalls pretending to his East Coast doctors that shock therapy had cured his depression.
