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NHS mental health teams - Community, crisis, and early intervention support
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 06/10/2025
Mental health teams are part of the NHS. They support people living in the community who have complex or serious mental health problems. This section focusses on secondary mental health teams. What they can do to help you and how you can get referred to them. It also explains what to do if you have problems with your mental health team.
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Rethink Companions Carer service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Companions Carers support offers one to one advice and signposting on all carers issues and the opportunity to attend the “Caring and coping” course that covers the following areas; • Wellbeing for carers • Carers rights • Carers assessment/benefits • Carers breaks.
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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - Symptoms, causes, and treatment
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 08/10/2025
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety related disorder. This section gives information on the symptoms, causes and treatments for OCD. It also has information for carers and family members.
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Rethink Companions Befriending (East Herts)
Services and Groups |Last updated: 12/07/2024
Rethink Companions is a befriending service that helps people to re-engage with their local community through social activities. There is also a carers service that gives carers information and support through one-to-one meetings and facilitates the Rethink caring and coping course
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Gloucestershire Support After Suicide Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 12/07/2024
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80% of people living with mental illness say current crisis has made their mental health worse.
1 min read |Last updated: 27/04/2020
Overwhelming majority of people living with mental illness say coronavirus pandemic has caused a deterioration in their mental health – first UK wide online peer support service launched in response Eighty percent (80%) of people living with mental illness who responded to a survey by charity Rethink Mental Illness said that coronavirus and the measures...
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Can mental health problems be prevented and cured?
1 min read |Last updated: 01/10/2025
Can mental health problems be prevented and cured? Most mental health problems do not have a cure, but many can be managed with the right treatment and support. In some cases, mental health problems can be prevented, or their impact reduced, by tackling causes and promoting overall wellbeing. Managing symptoms While a complete cure may not be possible...
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Survey puts spotlight on “inordinate” strain NHS is under, as people severely affected by mental illness struggle to access essential support
1 min read |Last updated: 27/02/2023
Rethink Mental Illness call on government to keep its promise to publish a 10-year Plan for Mental Health and Wellbeing, that would challenge causes of mental illness and reduce demand on NHS. A new survey of over 200 people who experience severe mental illness, including diagnoses such as schizophrenia, bipolar and personality disorders, has shed more...
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Charity warns that nation’s mental health has failed to rebound since the dark days of the pandemic
1 min read |Last updated: 16/11/2022
New online research by YouGov for charity Rethink Mental Illness reveals people more likely to report that their mental health has worsened since start of year, when the nation was in the midst of the Omicron wave and Plan B pandemic restrictions were in place National charity Rethink Mental Illness has warned the nation’s mental health has failed to...
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How can I find local and online support?
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 12/09/2025
How can I find local and online support? If you are having difficulties with your mental health, there are people and places that can help — both nearby and online. If you are 18 or older and live in England, this is for you. Here we show you where to find support groups who understand what you are going through. Also, places in your community like...
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Community Mental Health Webinar: What Next for Systems?
1 min read |Last updated: 15/08/2024
Community Mental Health Webinar: What Next for Systems? The drive to transform Community Mental Health services remains a crucial part of the NHS Long-Term Plan. At a time of great need and uncertainty, we ask leaders from across mental health systems; how do we continue to build on the momentum of transformation? What have been the key lessons learned...
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2020 Resources and Reports
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 19/03/2025
2020 Resources and Reports Managing a healthy weight in secure services Every Recovery and Outcomes Group has an engaging agenda that includes presentations by people living in services together with staff, and interactive discussions to maximise participation and involvement in key agenda items. In September/October 2019, for example, groups were...
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Charity warns rising demand for support signals a looming mental health crisis, urges people to seek support if they’re struggling
1 min read |Last updated: 27/10/2020
Over 2.3 million people visited rethink.org for advice and information in the six months after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the country would go into lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Demand for advice and information doubles compared to the six-month period that preceded the pandemic. Rethink Mental Illness has experienced...
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Mental Health Policy Group: 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Mental Health Policy Group: 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review The below submission to Comprehensive Spending Review sets out the priorities of Rethink Mental Illness and members of the Mental Health Policy Group. It covers several areas, notably capital investment in mental health services and in the social care and community services people severely...
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How can I get urgent help for my mental health?
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 15/09/2025
How can I get urgent help for my mental health? This page is here to help you if your mental health is really bad — and you need help fast. You are not alone, and there are services that are ready to listen and support you. If you are 18 or older and live in England, this is for you. You might need urgent help for your mental health for different reasons....
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Severe Mental illness and Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/02/2025
Severe Mental illness & Covid 19: Service support and digital solutions Report published 17 June 2020 by Jonathan Moore. This briefing shares the insights that Rethink Mental Illness has gleaned on service support and digital solutions during the pandemic. Some of these insights are based on online research we have conducted with service users,...
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Useful Resources and Documents
Services and Groups |1 min read |Last updated: 28/06/2023
We are proud to be a member of the following local and national suicide prevention and bereavement groups Zero Suicide Alliance National Suicide Prevention Alliance Gloucestershire Suicide Prevention Partnership Support After Suicide Partnership (SASP)
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Mental Health Act powers to be dropped from the Coronavirus Act
1 min read |Last updated: 30/09/2020
Matt Hancock today announced that a Schedule of the Coronavirus Act would be removed. This temporarily amended the Mental Health Act in the face of potential disruption to health services as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, making changes to the number of healthcare professionals required to assess individuals and the timeframes that they...
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Failure to undertake 'routine but life-saving' physical health checks for people with mental illness must come to end post-lockdown, urges charity
1 min read |Last updated: 16/06/2020
Failure to undertake “routine but life-saving” physical health checks for people with mental illness must come to end post-lockdown, urges charity Rethink Mental Illness is calling on health professionals and GPs in particular to learn from the crisis of Covid-19 as lockdown eases, taking urgent action to meet NHS targets for essential physical health...
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