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Our response to the Health Secretary’s claim that mental illnesses are being “overdiagnosed”
Last updated: 17/03/2025
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Rethink Advice and Information Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 20/12/2024
Our Advice Service gives practical advice to adults living in England who are affected by mental illness. We advise people with a mental health problem, their friends, families and carers. We advise professionals who may want to know more about mental illness and how they can support the person they are working with. The Advice Service are expertly trained in a range of issues, including; mental health conditions, access to care and treatment, different medications and treatments, individual rights under the Mental Health Act, social care, and welfare benefits. We give advice to carers about their rights and how they can support the person they care for. Calls to our Advice Service cost the same as when you call a local number.
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Money, benefits, and mental health
Advice and information |Last updated: 03/04/2025
Worrying about money can affect your mental health and living with a mental health condition can make managing money more difficult. This page includes many great links to advice and information on the Mental Health and Money Advice website.
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Tragic loss of Philippa Day reinforces urgent need for an independent inquiry into benefit deaths
1 min read |Last updated: 10/05/2021
Deputy CEO, Brian Dow, reacts to the calls for an independent inquiry into benefits deaths after the tragic loss of Philippa Day: “The welfare system is meant to help us through hard times and to support people living with mental illness. But for many people the benefits system is a cause of extreme distress, not support. Philippa Day, 27, tragically...
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Charities call for an independent inquiry into welfare related deaths
1 min read |Last updated: 11/03/2020
21 leading charities and mental health organisations, including Mind, Liberty and the Trussell Trust are backing a campaign by Rethink Mental Illness calling for an independent inquiry into the deaths of vulnerable people who rely on support from the welfare system. The charity has also written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions expressing...
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Contacting the advice service
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 06/05/2025
Contacting the advice service Our phone helpline is normally open from 9.30am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays. But we have a reduced team for a time until new staff are trained. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you. Our helpline will be open: Tuesday 06.05.25: 9:30am-3.45pmWednesday 07.05.25: 9:30am-1pmThursday 08.05.25:...
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Mental Health Act White Paper: engagement report
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Mental Health Act White Paper: engagement report The Mental Health Act White Paper is a crucial step along the road to reform of the Mental Health Act 1983, and enhanced rights to choice and involvement for people detained under the Act. These two reports engaged people currently and previously detained under the Act to share their perspectives with...
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2003-2019 Resources and Reports
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 19/03/2025
2003 - 2019 Resources and Reports 2019 General election 2019 manifesto: We've waiting long enough - it's time for a fair mental health system Read our general election manifesto which outlines the three key issues we believe the next government must address for people severely affected by mental illness - these are creating a cross-government mental...
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Gaming Get Together Resources
1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Gaming Get Together is our latest fundraising challenge. We're encouraging you to get together with mates and get gaming. All while raising awareness and fundraising for people severely affected by mental illness. On 6th November get your gaming crew together to take on a challenge or challenge each other on your favourite game. Now you are signed...
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Our response to Rishi Sunak's plan to reduce people being signed off sick from work
1 min read |Last updated: 19/04/2024
Today the Prime Minister announced plans to address the rising numbers of people out of work, focused on reforming how people are assessed on their fitness to work. Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “Our social security system, like the NHS, exists to support us and our loved ones when we’re in need. We agree that people...
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Our response to the 2022 Spring Statement
1 min read |Last updated: 24/03/2022
Mark Winstanley, CEO of Rethink Mental Illness, responds to the government's 2022 Spring Statement: "With an ever-worsening cost of living crisis, the Chancellor’s Spring Statement will sadly do little to ease the anxieties of people living with severe mental illness and their carers. "Even before the current cost of living crisis, many people living...
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Parliamentary Briefing - Social care announcements Sept 2021
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Parliamentary Briefing: The Future of Adult Social Care – Mental Health Overview We are pleased that the government has begun to rise to the significant challenges facing the social care sector. However, what has been announced so far does not represent the detailed vision for reforming social care that is so desperately needed. The government’s latest...
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Westminster Hall debate briefing - Social Care reform
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Westminster Hall debate briefing - Social Care reform Mental health social care is a vital and overlooked aspect of the social care in the UK. Without investment in local authority budgets the enormous benefits it brings to people severely affected by mental illness across the county could be lost. We ask that you raise the profile on mental health...
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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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