#MentalHealthAwareness week -opportunity to support staff working with CYP with mental health needs in acute settings. Please do share these resources on @NHSE e-lfh platform with your networks-678,000 hits on the website already-we also want your feedback!e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/cyp…

📣1 week to go until our 10th NCISH conference📣. Have you booked your place yet? We will be presenting the latest UK-wide findings relating to people who died by suicide between 2011 and 2021. Tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ncish-10th-c…

Our NCISH team are busy preparing for our 10th NCISH conference on 7th May. Have you booked to attend? eventbrite.co.uk/e/ncish-10th-c…

Completely unacceptable to be advertising /promoting gambling I like this… however I would struggle to find any promotion of gambling acceptable

People living with a severe mental illness face the greatest health inequality gap in England. Help us raise awareness of the link between mental and physical health and reduce inequalities. Find out more about joining us👇
Centre for Mental Health Rethink Mental Illness
equallywell.co.uk/how-to-join/

This is important & needs solutions

Have you got recent lived experience of an eating disorder? The Royal College of Psychiatrists are looking for a Patient Representative in the Faculty of Eating Disorders 👇rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/work-…

The more I read, the more I get worried about psychedelic assisted psychotherapy breaking all the rules of running trials.
' Potential participants can include current and past patients of the researchers'
Current patients? For a trial you are running? Where is the equipoise?

⬇️ This is a problem itself. An ageing population and limited access to NHS dentistry in increasingly leading to more inpatients with acute dental problems contributing to their primary diagnosis.If you can’t eat or have an dental infection - UTI, frailty ….BDA

Delighted that NHSE are launching a new ADHD Taskforce that will bring together cross sector expertise in providing a joined up response to the current concerns in providing care. This will build on the findings from the initial review-pleased to be supporting this important work

NEW today, Centre for Mental Health report commissioned by MHN Chief Executive on the economic and social costs of mental ill health in England in 2022. The total of £300 billion is equivalent to twice the NHS budget that year. It’s a huge cost, mostly paid by people living with mental illness

Real-time suicide statistics released today, up to Dec 2023. Little evidence of change - figures tend to fall late in the year.

Importantly, no upward trend despite many facing economic adversity.

gov.uk/government/sta…

Dr Elaine Lockhart 🌎 Lade Smith CBE Royal College of Psychiatrists rcpsychCAP An important debate and great points from Lade #mentaillness is distinct from #mentalhealth Obvious perhaps but often conflated to the disadvantage of those with mental illness

Major step away from risk assessment tools, aiming to ensure counsellors & psychotherapists follow NICE guidance.

Achieved by tireless campaigning of bereaved parent Philip Pirie.

#suicideprevention

Join Health Innovation Network & Mark Horowitz Stopping Antidepressants Safely Lunchtime Masterclass on 21 May register: events.weahsn.net/PolypharmacySt… RCGP PrescQIPP CIC Wasim Baqir Tony Avery Clare Howard AuralApothecary Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Consultation now open on community water fluoridation expansion in the north east of England - online consultation open until 17th June: gov.uk/government/con…

Have your read our 2024 Annual Report? Our key messages sheet summarises findings on some important groups this year: autistic people & pts with ADHD, in-pts <25, students aged 18-21, pts with a one-off assessment &pts who died in public locations #MentalHealth #SuicidePrevention

Govt plans to improve safety of mental health inpatients through better use of data & intelligence.

Response to last year’s review published today.

I will co-chair steering group with Health Minister Maria Caulfield MP.

gov.uk/government/pub…

Great to see this clinic open in Sheffield Henrietta Bowden-Jones much needed service & good evidence of effectiveness
greg fell FFPH
Huge medical, social & financial harm
Industry need to be held to account Particular concern in children & students
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT Faculty of Health | University of Sheffield RCPsych Addictions Faculty

Here is the second part with my statement as Founder and Director of the first of the fifteen NHS clinics. Incredible work from ⁦NHS England to meet the 2019 longterm plans. Well done! ⁩ ⁦Claire Murdoch⁩ ⁦Amanda Pritchard⁩