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Virgin Trains and Rethink Mental Illness: A truly brilliant partnership
Virgin Trains staff supported our work at Rethink Mental Illness from April 2017 to the end of their rail franchise in December 2019. Our Head of Corporate Partnerships, James Fletcher, looks back at our partnership
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Rethink Mental Illness responds to CQC report on learning from deaths in care
Following a report by the Care Quality Commission into the progress being made on learning from deaths in care, Mark Winstanley CEO of Rethink Mental Illness said...
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Not being able to talk to friends about caring leaves 1 in 3 unpaid carers socially isolated
Seven national charities including Rethink Mental Illness come together to launch theme for Carers Week 2019, the UK’s drive to raise awareness of caring
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Rethink Mental Illness welcomes new NHS waiting times for mental health services
The NHS have today announced today that it will respond to emergency mental health needs within one hour under new national standards.
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Rethink Mental Illness joins call for reforms to how social care is funded.
Today, Tuesday 10 December, the Richmond Group of Charities published a letter in the Times calling for reform of the funding of social care.
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Telling your partner you live with a mental illness
If you meet someone, when is the right time to disclose your illness? We asked mental health campaigner Ellie about when she first tackles that tricky conversation.
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Today marks one year since I last self-harmed
Our great friend and all-round great guy, Carl Burkitt, tells us about his experience of self-harm and how he learned to treat himself with compassion and understanding.
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Being sectioned at 18: Degrading and life-saving
What were you doing when you were 17 about to turn 18? Partying? Smoking and drinking? Working? Starting a family? Looking round university? Gap year? I was sectioned under the mental health act.
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Report by Rethink has shown that less that one in three people would be able to identify the symptoms of psychosis.
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Not being able to talk to friends about caring leaves one in three unpaid carers socially isolated
04/04/2019
Seven national charities, including Rethink Mental Illness, come together to launch theme for Carers Week 2019, the UK’s drive to raise awareness of caring.
Read more Read moreRethink Mental Illness welcomes new NHS waiting times for mental health services
04/04/2019
The NHS have today announced that it will respond to emergency mental health needs within one hour under new national standards. For people accessing emergency mental health services in the community, it will be 24 hours.
Read more Read moreLargest survey of its kind reveals extent of university students’ struggles with thoughts of self-harm, loneliness and anxiety
04/04/2019
The largest mental health survey ever conducted on UK university students, comprising of 37,654 respondents, found that almost 1 in 10 (9.4%) think about self-harming often or all the time.
Read more Read moreRethink Mental Illness responds to to CQC report
04/04/2019
Rethink Mental Illness responds to to CQC report
Read more Read moreMental Health Policy Group responds to the NHS Long Term Plan published today
04/04/2019
Mental Health Policy Group responds to the NHS Long Term Plan published today
Read more Read moreRethink Mental Illness responds to the NHS Long Term Funding Plan
04/04/2019
Rethink Mental Illness responds to the NHS Long Term Funding Plan
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