Mental health: fact vs fiction
FACT: The Conservative Party website claims “We have a strong record on mental health”. “New models of personalised care will be rolled out to tackle the serious issue of adult mental illness.” “We’re funding 12 […]
Mental Health
A report from the Mental Health Crisis Summit
The Mental Health Crisis Summit co-hosted by Keep Our NHS Public, Mental Health – Time for Action and Health Campaigns Together could not have been more timely, being held soon after the publication of a […]
The Mental Health Crisis Summit takes the first step in building a campaign
Guest post by Lucette Davies. This article is republished from East Sussex Save the NHS Campaign’s website. The Mental Health Crisis Summit held at The Royal Free Hospital on Saturday 28 September was an event that […]
An increase in suicide is this government’s shocking legacy
Keep Our NHS Public are committed to raising awareness of cuts to mental health services which have tragic consequences. To this end our impending Mental Health Crisis Summit in London on 28th September ran in […]
Stop the suicide crisis – 200 children lost each year
In a shocking report it is now revealed that suicides have risen to a 16-year high across UK. The increase is largely driven by suicides among boys and men, while self-inflicted deaths among females under […]
August Newsletter 2019 – Boris Johnson, No-Deal, new NHS film coming soon and Mental Health Summit announcements
This August Newsletter, features news on the appointment of Boris Johnson as our new unelected Prime Minister, the danger of a no-deal Brexit for the NHS, NHS workers on strike in Bradford resisting ‘Subcos’, more on […]
Boris Johnson: an existential threat to our NHS
As we set out recently, there was no pro-NHS candidate in this Conservative Party leadership election – Boris Johnson’s closest rival was Jeremy Hunt, former Health Secretary and architect of much of the chaos, privatisation […]
Mental Health Crisis Summit 2019 – Book Now
This Mental Health Awareness Week Keep Our NHS Public, Mental Health – Time for Action and Health Campaigns Together are launching the Mental Health Crisis Summit. Chronic underfunding has pushed mental health services to the brink, and […]
Austerity and NHS cuts: wrecking our mental health
While working in NHS mental health is important and rewarding, in a climate of NHS cuts, privatisation and austerity, it’s an uphill battle to provide the care so urgently needed writes Dr Mona Kamal Despite […]
‘We were right’ say Junior Doctors as unsafe contract laid bare.
Two years after the first all out doctors’ strike in British history the effects of this government-imposed contract have been published. The first figures since then, revealed by the Health Service Journal earlier this week, […]