Really great listen on BBC Radio 4 The Spark Chris Daw KC on the problems with the criminal system and need for change including greater rehabilitation opportunities that build and maintain offenders protective factors to reduce the rate of reoffending

Hungry Children Christmas Fund gofundme.com/f/t7y9ar-hungr…

Petition: End child food poverty – no child should be going hungry petition.parliament.uk/petitions/5542…

Awful to read the ongoing racial inequality in mental health

Hi, I’m Andrew Iles 👋🏼 I’m a consultant forensic psychiatrist Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation, an expert witness Expert Court Reports and a visiting psychiatrist at Priory #choosepsychiatry

People with severe mental illness #SMI have hihger risks, and should be prioritized to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine during the first phase of its distribution #WorldPsychiatry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp…

Covid has undermined UK's chronically under-funded justice system theguardian.com/law/2021/jan/1…

Useful new paper. The findings will surprise few working in secure hospital settings but vital to have evidence for highlighting another group for the list for earlier immunisation Basrak et al from the Kennedy & Davoren group doi: 10.1192/bjo.2020.169

Stop trying to deport doctors! This country must reward the heroes that come to its aid in its time of greatest need with the right to call this country home. #ILR_4_NHS_Workers is needed now! act.newmode.social/693836018t

Racism & discrimination experienced at work impacts on the #mentalhealth of staff and also adversely affects patient care Concerning data from Royal College of Psychiatrists survey of doctors #RCPsychEquality Adrian James Lade Smith CBE The BMJ bmj.com/content/372/bm…

There is a first for everything. Today’s first was being gifted a box of Maltesers by Mars UK at HMPHighDown. I’ve never had a gift for visiting a prison before.

Further evidence from ⁦Professor Susan Young⁩ to demonstrate the disadvantage faced by #offenders with #adhd readcube.com/articles/10.10…

People with severe mental illness #SMI are at high risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection & COVID-19-related morbidity + mortality, and must be offered early access to vaccination The LancetPsych @TheLancet thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Important paper in advancing understanding of suicide in prisoners

Excellent blog Nisha Aggarwal Tackling racism in the NHS—we need to listen to the voices of ethnic minority staff - The BMJ go.shr.lc/3p0MdJb

The shocking realisation that health, social care & public health had been almost entirely left out of a budget delivered during a pandemic The BMJ Not building back better or fairer; not addressing inequality & just their 'business as usual' go.shr.lc/3kOnpDC

Mental vaccines: an interesting concept cup.org/3bq9hNT

Further data on FoVOx: can be used in a minimally resource-intensive manner on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/34…

Our new Mendelian randomization study in PLOS Medicine shows that inflammation could be a common cause for comorbid insulin resistance & schizophrenia. May explain why abnormal glucose-insulin homeostasis can be detectable before / at FEP in young adults! cutt.ly/VzSZiMl

Interesting read from Philip Cowen’s group ⁦Oxford Psychiatry⁩: the potential benefits of #statins in #depression. researchgate.net/publication/35…