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Schizophrenia
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/05/2025
This section covers what schizophrenia is, what the symptoms are and how you can get treatment.
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Frequently asked Q's
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/05/2025
This page looks at section 135 of the Mental Health Act. It explains when police can take you to a place of safety from a private place they think you have a mental health issue, and are a risk to yourself or others. It explains what your rights are under this section. And what could happen after it ends.
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2024 Resources and Reports
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 19/03/2025
2024 Resources and Reports Towards a Cohesive Whole: A long term vision for children and young people's mental health services We are witnessing a mental health crisis among children and young people in England. The government’s existing pledges around children and young people’s mental health show that it recognises the seriousness of the youth mental...
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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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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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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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Three groups of young people who are missing out on mental health support
Last updated: 20/11/2024
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New poll shows nearly a third of all UK adults would not be comfortable sharing a diagnosis with a friend
1 min read |Last updated: 25/09/2024
New campaign urges people to rethink mental illness stigma A new initiative is encouraging more people to rethink their preconceptions and stigma towards people severely affected by mental illness*, as a new poll reveals nearly a third of all UK adults (30%) would not be comfortable sharing a diagnosis of severe mental illness with a friend. Click here...
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STP Guide second edition
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Keep thinking differently Rethink Mental Illness’s second guide for STPs/ICSs to continue their journey of community mental health transformation. As you will know, transformation funding, designed to support stakeholders to realise the radical vision set out within the NHS Long Term Plan and Community Mental Health Framework entered the system from...
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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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Rising pressures on unpaid carers as public backing for greater support grows
1 min read |Last updated: 08/06/2022
Carers Week charities are calling for an urgent 12-month plan of targeted support for unpaid carers, as many struggle with the ongoing impact, as well as the legacy, of the pandemic, together with the strain of the social care and cost of living crises. 4.68 million unpaid carers concerned for physical and mental health 2.2 million carers worried about...
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Debate on decriminalisation of cannabis for recreational use must take into account the potential for public harm
1 min read |Last updated: 06/02/2020
Rethink Mental Illness is calling on policy makers to ensure the debate around the legalisation of cannabis for recreational purposes reflects the likely impact on the most vulnerable in society and those at greater risk of, or living with, severe mental illness. Recognising strong arguments for a change in the law, Rethink Mental Illness is calling...
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Peer Support Workers: Exploring Rethink Mental Illness’s Practice
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/03/2025
Peer Support Workers: Exploring Rethink Mental Illness’s Practice A peer support worker is someone with lived experience of a mental health problem who uses their experience to support other people in mental health services. It is a crucial role within a number of Rethink Mental Illness services. In early 2023, we launched our Learning and Insights...
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Spring Appeal
1 min read |Last updated: 07/05/2025
Mental health is in crisis Right now, over 1.5 million people are waiting for mental health support. Suicides are at their highest rate this millennium. People are eight times more likely to wait 18+ months for mental health treatment than for physical health treatment. And the government has announced sweeping, ill-conceived benefits cuts that will...
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