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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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  • 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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  • Bristol Carer Service

    Services and Groups |Last updated: 24/07/2025

    We help over 200 family members, partners and friend of Bristol adults with mental health needs. Whether or not you think you are a ‘carer’, advice and support is available.

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  • Get help now

    Advice and information |Last updated: 27/06/2025

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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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  • How can I find local and online support?

    Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 12/05/2025

    How can I find local and online support? This information tells you how you can get local and online support for your mental health. It is for people who are 18 or over and live in England. Here find out about peer support groups and community support services. Also, local crisis houses, cafés, and helplines, and other ways of finding local services...

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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 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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  • Use your experience

    Last updated: 14/07/2025

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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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  • 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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  • Get help

    Last updated: 12/11/2024

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Useful Resources and Documents

    Services and Groups |1 min read |Last updated: 27/10/2023

    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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  • 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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  • Miles for Mental Health

    1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024

    Miles for Mental Health is Rethink Mental Illness' very first virtual running challenge and we would love you to join and be a part of our mission, improving the lives of people affected by mental illness. The challenge is to keep active and work towards the goal of completing a marathon distance over the course of one month, be that in your garden,...

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