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Mental health
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- NewsHuffPost UK
I'm An NHS GP – Here's Why Rishi Sunak's Wrong About Mental Health
"I have never known mental health services to be in a worse state than they are right now."
- NewsThe Guardian
Afternoon Update: Ten says Lehrmann lawsuit ‘deliberately wicked’; Beau Lamarre’s lawyer flags mental health defence; and the return of acai
Network says defamation case an abuse of process and that Lerhmann should pay its legal fees
- NewsThe Guardian
Beau Lamarre’s lawyer flags mental health defence to murder charges
Outside court in Sydney, John Walford says he is ‘not sure’ how his client will plead to alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
- NewsThe Independent
People detained under the Mental Health Act dying at three times the rate of those held in prisons
New report from government advisory body warns deaths in custody remain ‘far too high’
- HealthThe Telegraph
The workshy have weaponised mental health – Rishi was right to call them out
It has outraged the Left, shocked mental health charities and appalled campaigners, who have decried Rishi Sunak’s keynote speech on welfare reform and our “sick note culture” as “a full-on assault on disabled people” and “an irresponsible war of words”.
- HealthHuffPost UK
Love To Vent About Your Anger? It Could Be Having This Impact On Your Mental Health
Yes, it turns out that venting isn't always good for you.
- HealthThe Telegraph
Climate change is causing mental health crisis for workers, report claims
Climate change is driving a crisis in workers’ mental health, a new global report has claimed.
- HealthThe Independent
Leaked NHS figures reveal 15,000 died in care of mental health trusts in one year
Exclusive: NHS figures leaked by whistleblower suggest more than 15,000 patients died in care of community mental health services in just one year – with desperate families forced to ‘beg’ for treatment from overstretched medical teams
- HealthThe Telegraph
How my 22-day coma saved my mental health
It began in the spring of 2008 at an academic conference in Ireland. I was lonely, and the town where I was staying was dismal and it rained. On the third day a fierce headache tightened across my temples until I had to go back to my hotel room and lie down. By the evening it had faded but I was exhausted and went to bed early. The next morning I woke at five, nauseous, with an odd stiffness in my hands. I took paracetamol, which seemed to help a little, struggled through the final conference se
- HealthThe Telegraph
Getting rid of sick notes isn’t the answer to our mental health crisis
“We can’t allow fraudsters to exploit the natural compassion and generosity of the British people,” said Rishi Sunak last week, with a stomp of his Adidas Sambas and a stunning lack of self-awareness. For Sunak wasn’t referring to allegations that Mark Menzies, one of his MPs, had persuaded a hard-working party supporter to cash out thousands of pounds to pay some “bad people”, but to new plans to tackle “sick note culture”. The Government wants to clamp down on grifters taking advantage of the