Opening Doors
We are campaigning to open to the doors to mental health services, and to ensure they are good quality. It is essential that treatments and services are available, accessible and delivered to high standards.
What can I do now?
People with severe mental illness die earlier and younger than everyone else. The good news is it’s preventable and you can help to stop this. Email your local Trust and ask them to introduce Rethink’s free Physical Health Check in all local health services.
What issues are we tackling?
- NICE guidelines - The draft updated guidelines for the treatment and management of schizophrenia are now open for public consultation. See what NICE is recommending and have your say!
- GP practices: reasonable adjustments - see Rethink's new toolkit for GPs about making practices more accessible.
- NHS review and constitution - find out what is promised in the new NHS constitution and NHS review report - and have your say!
- Social Care consultation - find out what the Government is proposing for the future of care and support services - and have your say!
- Health and Social Care Bill - The Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC) is being abolished. Find out what Rethink is doing to ensure that mental health remains a priority within the new Commission which will be responsible for regulating health and social care.
- Prescription Charges - A fair deal for mental health? We want your views!
- Physical health inequalities- people with severe mental illness are at a greater risk of physical illness than the rest of the population.
