PLEASE BE AWARE our new ad hits hard, shedding light on the critical need to support the mental health of NHS frontline staff.

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Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.

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Letter here:

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Important results out today 👇🏻

We were delighted to help shape this vital resource which supports practitioners to identify early difficulties in parent-infant relationships and to refer families onto specialised parent-infant relationship teams and services where appropriate.👇🧵1/3
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The misery of housing rental. English monthly wage about £2,700 a month. Average rental £1276 a month. In London, £2035. No wonder there is widespread food insecurity and cold homes. Mr Micawber’s budget. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A reminder that a massive consultation with parents (n=487) found that they overwhelming want to be asked about how their relationship with their baby is going, & want to know when & from whom to seek help if things aren't going as well as they'd hoped.
parentinfantfoundation.org.uk/securinghealth…

1/2 Tomorrow! The ⁦Independent Maternity Review NUH Trust⁩ team will be posting more than 70 letters to new families who are not yet in the review. They will be from ⁦Donna Ockenden FRSA, Hon DLitt⁩ - Donna as Chair of the review explaining to families why they can join the review if wanted & how to opt out 🧵

My new blog for Isos Partnership describes why we need to move away from the traditional universal/targeted/specialist triangle, and instead deploy specialist expertise strategically across the population.

isospartnership.com/blog/two-trian…

A group of mothers are taking part in a five-day hunger strike outside Parliament in a bid to highlight the struggle thousands of mothers are facing to feed their children.

@EmmaBarnett is joined by one of the mothers ⬇️

This is THE best video for so so so many reasons. 🙂🙂🙂

It’s time to tune in.

This isn’t drama. At least 34 homeless children have died in temporary accommodation since 2019.

Across the UK, access to safe housing, healthcare and a decent standard of living is deteriorating before our eyes.

Learn more at beforeoureyes.co.uk

Thanks claire marshall 💙 This is lovely x

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We found suicide attempts 3x more common in women with history of intimate partner violence.

What does this mean for clinical practice? Should always ask about dom violence in assessing suicide risk.

Lead author Sally McManus.

#InternationalWomensDay

thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

4 in 5 women have at times felt that healthcare professionals are not listening to them.

Why do women feel unheard? And how can we improve? Read our Women's Health Collection: evidence.nihr.ac.uk/collection/wom…

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024 #WomensHealth

Thanks to Edwin Hayward, I burrowed into new report 'Mental Health of World' frm Sapien Labs. It says: 1) Of 71 countries, UK ranks way up at the top for 'struggling & distressed'. 2) The pandemic had a lasting impact. 3) Young ppl worst affected. mentalstateoftheworld.report/2023_read/

UK right down there at the bottom -- or actually at the top. We had the greatest degree of proportional change in child income poverty. Of 39 countries, the UK had the greatest rate.
Adults' irritation with young people is self-indulgent. It distracts from children's suffering.

MPs fall silent as tearful Jess Phillips reads names of 101 women killed by men mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

'Working in the NHS at the moment is a bit more like Saw III than Call the Midwife.'

Devastating piece from nurse/author Christie Watson in The Times and The Sunday Times about the moral injury of working in a broken system.

thetimes.co.uk/article/3e4732…

Maternal death rates in the UK have increased to levels not seen for almost 20 years - as a barometer for a nation’s health, this is a statistic which cannot be ignored.

Oxford experts Prof Marian Knight and Dr Allison Felker explain the worrying trend ⬇️
theconversation.com/maternal-death…