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Discharge from the Mental Health Act
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 29/05/2025
This section looks at how your detention under sections 2, 3 and 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983 can end. Detention means that you are taken to hospital against your will. This is also known as ‘sectioning’.
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Schizophrenia
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2025
This section covers what schizophrenia is, what the symptoms are and how you can get treatment.
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Response to Call for Evidence – Draft Mental Health Bill 2022
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Response to Call for Evidence – Draft Mental Health Bill 2022 The draft Mental Health Bill has been released for consultation. Rethink Menal Illness submitted the below written evidence to the Mental Health Bill Committee who are undertaking pre-legislative scrutiny. About Rethink Mental Illness. 1. Rethink Mental Illness is the charity for people severely...
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Covid-19 and support in the community
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/02/2025
Severe Mental illness & Covid 19: Support in the community - social care, carers and peer support Report published 25 June 2020 by Jonathan Moore. Though clinical support is a vital component of care, people severely affected by mental illness need more than this to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. This objective cannot be achieved by medical...
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Rethink Mental Illness responds to new Public Health England data
1 min read |Last updated: 03/12/2020
Public Health England have released new data that reveals for the first time that people severely affected by mental illness are 4.5 times more likely to die before the age of 75, with significant regional variations. Lucy Schonegevel, Deputy Associate Director of Campaigns and Policy at Rethink Mental Illness said: "People who were referred to secondary...
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Mental Health First Aid - Youth
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Mental Health First Aid (Youth) This course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider, giving you: An in-depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress Enhanced interpersonal...
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Community Mental Health Framework research
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Getting started: lessons from the first year of implementing the Community Mental Health Framework Rethink Mental Illness's new report explores key learning from the first full year of implementation of NHS England's Community Mental Health Framework. We believe that the creation of the Framework, and more recently the introduction of Integrated Care...
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Ensuring uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations among people with severe mental illness
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Ensuring uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations among people with severe mental illness – barriers, enablers and recommendations. 1. Introduction The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has placed people with severe mental illness (defined in this case as “Individuals with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, or any mental illness that causes...
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Creative Corner
1 min read |Last updated: 28/04/2025
Creative Corner Welcome to our membership creative corner where we showcase your talent. If you'd like to submit your own work then please email us atmembership@rethink.org - we'd love to add yours to the collection! This section is open to members. If you're not a member but want to join our community and send your work, you can find out more about...
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Becoming an anti-racist organisation: Oxytocin report
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Becoming an anti-racist organisation: Oxytocin report summary Independent external review of Rethink Mental Illness’ progress in becoming an anti-racist organisation. Summary Report and recommendations by Oxytocin Learning and Rethink Mental Illness – September 2021. Introduction Oxytocin-Learning (Oxytocin) was invited to conduct a review of Rethink...
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