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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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Money, benefits, poverty, and mental health
Advice and information |Last updated: 09/07/2025
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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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Community treatment orders (CTOs) - Made under the Mental Health Act 1983
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 06/10/2025
This section gives information about community treatment orders (CTOs), how they’re made and what your rights are. It explains how you can challenge your CTO if you don’t agree with it. This information is for adults affected by mental illness in England. It’s also for their loved ones and anyone interested in this subject.
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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: 08/10/2025
Contacting the advice service Please note: Our helpline is usually open 9.30am - 4pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Bank holidays. But it will be open the following times on the following dates: Thursday 9 October 2025 - 1pm to 4pm Wednesday 15 October 2025 - 9.30am to 1pm Friday 17 October 2025 - 10.40am to 4pm Tuesday 21 October 2025 - Closed all day...
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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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Coalition calls for government strategy to tackle ‘causes rather than symptoms’ of deepening mental health crisis
1 min read |Last updated: 09/05/2025
Coalition of organisations representing people living with mental illness and other disabilities calls for strategy that identifies and tackles drivers of mental ill-health across education, health, welfare and more. The group warns against proposed benefit cuts, which they say could exacerbate the mental health crisis. Letter calls for...
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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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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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Rates of people living with a common mental health condition on the rise in England - something needs to change
1 min read |Last updated: 26/06/2025
More people in England are experiencing a common mental health condition, according to NHS data released today. The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, that looks at the prevalence of both treated and untreated psychiatric disorders in adults (aged over 16) in England, found that 1 in 5 adults now live with a common mental health condition, up from...
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