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Do you think GP practices should be doing more to be more accessible for people with mental illness?

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Get involved in campaigns

Rethink Mental Ilness believes that people directly affected by mental illness should be at the heart of our campaigns. We want you to get your voice heard to help fight the discrimination, ignorance and fear that surround mental illness.

Getting involved is to be recommended. My confidence had risen massively. As Service Users we are the people who know most about how the system works, or doesn't work. If we don't tell people how it could be improved, how will they know?

Louise, Rethink Activist

Opportunities include

Becoming a Physical Health Activist and campaigning with others in your area for better physical healthcare.
Meeting or writing to your MP. Rethink Mental Illness Activist Kay wrote to her MP and had a brilliant success. Find out what happened.
Why not write to your local paper? Rethink Mental Illness Activist Michelle had her letter about the local council's budget plans published. Read Michelle's letter for ideas for your own letter.
See what Rethink Mental Illness Activists have been up to lately!

Do you want to campaign on a local issue?

Take action - a guide to campaigning on mental health

Read our top tips for running your own campaign by reading our Take Action guide: Download your free guide to campaigning

Alternatively check out our Resource Library for more documents to help.

The Policy, Research and Activism Team is here to offer advice on local campaigning. Please do get in touch!

Read about our local campaigning activities.

Why get involved

Angela Warren, activist As an Activist for Rethink Mental Illness, I attended a Conservative Party engagement event and discussed the issue of pre-employment questionnaires with Mark Harper; the then Shadow Minister for disabled people. All the MPs at the event showed a genuine interest and openness to hear what we had to say, and also a willingness to act and take the issues forward.

I was so excited to hear the result that the law had been changed, I cheered out loud! I felt a real shared sense of achievement and was thrilled to have been part of it.

Join the movement today!

Nick Clegg outside conference 2009 pleding support

Sign up to campaign and become a Rethink Mental Illness Activist Register now for regular updates on campaigning activities around the country for you to take part in and help us to help everyone affected by mental illness.

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Become a Time to Change Champion - Add your voice to the Time to Change movement and be part of England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems.

Find out more about what Rethink Mental Illness Activists have been up to.

GP Toolkit: What's reasonable?

Rethink Mental Illness and the Royal College of GPs have worked together to produce a booklet for GPs that suggests reasonable adjustments for people with mental illness.

The toolkit is based on a consultation event with people with mental health service users, carers, GPs and practice staff.

We need GP surgery Practice Managers to read it and implement the suggestions, so please take a copy to your local surgery and ask to talk to the Practice Manager or leave a copy for them.

Please download the GP Toolkit: What's Reasonable? (451 kb)