More than 200,000 children are skipping meals because families don’t have enough food during lockdown - The Food Foundation reveals children are slipping through the cracks of #COVID_19uk emergency support bit.ly/2xwFfGZ #Right2Food Department for Education DWP Defra UK

Comment form The Lancet on how the lockdown will exacerbate food insecurity and existing inequalities, with school closures hitting the poorest families hardest. thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

I will not 'watch my tone' when dozens of NHS and care staff are dying unnecessarily. Families are being torn apart.

We should be looking to see how to best respond and provide support for care workers, health professionals, families and many others whose mental health is being affected by the pandemic... theguardian.com/society/2020/m…

Coronavirus affects mental health too – here's what we know | Anthony David theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"...Those who face the greatest disadvantages in life also face the greatest risk to their mental health." Read more in this report from The Mental Health Foundation: ow.ly/VOn850zQ3nk #MentalHealth #Coronavirus

More evidence of the many ways in which poverty impacts mental health... Poverty and debt driving young women to self-harm – survey theguardian.com/society/2020/m…

Because of Covid-19, the Government is offering phone or paper benefits assessments instead of in person. Now that we know it's possible, let’s make this change permanent. Become a Mind campaigner help us create a more accessible benefits system > bit.ly/2ypBsfa

A lot enlightened and way optimistic about 'implementing new learning' ('scuse the technobabble). A fab read for anybody interested in communities, mental health, research or relationships | Thanks to DeSTRESSProject et al #MondayMotivation 😃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A new paper from the DeStress Project is now available! "Use of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in Practice: Interactions between patients and physicians". Written by Joe Ford, Felicity Thomas, Richard Byng and Rose McCabe #mentalhealth #depression #anxiety

DeSTRESSProject keith guppy Looking forward to reading this. Peta take a look-been periphally involved in this excellent project. Well done Felicity, C2 and Co.

Pleased to say that our paper on the use of a depression questionnaire in practice is now available open access. You can get it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Rose McCabe DeSTRESSProject #mentalhealth #diagnosis #EMCA

ICYMI, last week we launched our new website for sharing stories of loneliness and Covid-19. We'd love you to get involved. #lonelycovid

Another paper from the DeStress Project is now available! This one is about how GPs and patients discuss self-harm. You can find a link to the article (which is available for free) in the tweet below. #mentalhealth #research #communication

#GPs can better help patients who #SelfHarm or think about #suicide by asking more open questions, acknowledging #SuicidalThoughts, and exploring positive reasons to stay alive, a study from Joe Ford Rose McCabe DeSTRESSProject has shown: > evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/open-que…

We are very pleased to announce that we have received funding via NIHR ARC NENC Inequalities Consortium for a new project implementing effective primary care responses to poverty-related mental distress. The DeStress-2 project is now fully underway! #watchthisspace #DeStress2

Fantastic project- led by an amazing team- look forward to chronicling this at the @sw_ahsn

Very happy and lucky to be working on this. See destressproject.org.uk/conference-ses… for incredibly informative videos on the background to the project. #DeStress2