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Worried about your mental health? How to get treatment and support
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
This section explains how you can get help if you are worried about your mental health. It explains about options for treatment and support. Such as seeing your GP, talking therapy and self-help and support from charities. This section is for anyone worried about their mental health.
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Suicidal thoughts - How to cope
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
This section may help you if you are dealing with suicidal thoughts, feelings, or intentions. It has ideas you can try to help you. It explains how you can stay safe, and how you can get support.
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Access Community Mental Health (Wiltshire)
Services and Groups |Last updated: 21/03/2025
The Rethink Access Community Mental Health Wiltshire Service is closing as of the 31st March 2025. • From 1 April 2025, some community mental health services in B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) will be provided by a new voluntary sector partnership called the Mental Health and Wellbeing Partnership (Alabaré, Missing Link, Nilaari, Second Step). This replaces the Rethink Access Community Mental Health Wiltshire Service that Rethink provides. • Guided by principles of equity, accessibility and coproduction, we are collaborating with providers across the system to ensure service continuity through this transition phase. • Together we will work to provide integrated care and the best possible outcomes for people across BSW. Importantly, the new partnership will focus on closing the gap between primary and secondary care and helping vulnerable people find the support they need. • For more information, please email info.accessCMH@second-step.co.uk and info.intensiveoutreach@second-step.co.uk
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Bipolar disorder
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 01/04/2025
This section explains the symptoms of bipolar disorder, treatments and ways to manage the condition.
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Albany House Nursing Home
Services and Groups |Last updated: 21/07/2023
CQC Nursing home service, for 8 people with a severe and enduring mental illness. We offer support and recovery services. We work on a focused out come support system where we support individuals to develop and maintain skills, such as daily living, finances education and employment. We actively support people to access the community and to develop links with local groups. Albany house works closely with the local mental health team.
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Bristol Community Support Services
Services and Groups |Last updated: 04/02/2025
Bristol Community Services is a part of Bristol Services - Help when You Need It. We provide floating one-to-one support in the community to individuals aged 16+ within the area covered by Bristol City Council. We aim to make a positive difference in their lives.
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East Kent Peer Support Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 30/10/2024
We are a free support service for people who have any kind of mental health issue (diagnosed or undiagnosed) who are looking for a low-level peer support service and live in the East Kent areas of Thanet, Dover, Folkestone, Hythe, Romney Marsh and Ashford.
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Rethink Mental Illness marks the 75th anniversary of the NHS
1 min read |Last updated: 05/07/2023
Today marks 75 years since the NHS was founded, the first universal health service to be free to all at the point of need. Since then it has supported millions of people, including those living with mental illness. Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “The NHS is now engrained in our national DNA, founded under the nearly...
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We respond to news of consultation on NHS 10 Year Health Plan
1 min read |Last updated: 21/10/2024
A consultation has today been launched to help shape the future of the NHS over the next decade. Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “This consultation for a new 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS is launching at a vital time. Mental health services are still playing catch-up after decades of neglect and under-investment,...
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Our response to the rapid review on inpatient safety
1 min read |Last updated: 28/06/2023
In response to the publication of the rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings, published today by the Department of Health and Social Care, Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “When people experience a mental health crisis or are very unwell, they expect the NHS to keep them safe and support their recovery....
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Manifesto for a new Prime Minister 2022
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Manifesto for a new Prime Minister The Mental Health Policy Group Since the initial commitment to parity of esteem (the need to value mental health equally to physical health) a decade ago, there is no doubt that we have seen significant progress in mental health policy. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent cost of living crisis has put unprecedented...
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Our response to news that NHS England will be abolished
1 min read |Last updated: 13/03/2025
Today the Prime Minister announced that NHS England, the management body which leads the NHS in England, will be abolished. Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “The prime minister’s decision to abolish NHS England marks a seismic shift in how our health service is run. Clearly it is a very difficult day for NHS England...
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The Major Conditions Strategy: Too narrow but a move in the right direction
Last updated: 10/09/2024
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Our position on lived experience roles in mental health care
1 min read |Last updated: 21/12/2022
Recently, the media has put a spotlight on the role of lived experience in mental health care. Here, our colleague Sam sets out what lived experience roles consist of, why they're important, and how this specialism can support the improvement of healthcare services for people severely affected by mental illness. Sam Holmes, Head of Co-production Practice,...
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Our response to the BBC investigation into the Priory Group
1 min read |Last updated: 26/04/2023
Today (Wednesday April 26th) we respond to a BBC investigation which features claims from former senior managers at the Priory Group who shared concerns about the safety of patients and staff. This story follows the tragic loss of Beth Matthews and two other women, Deseree Fitzpatrick and Lauren Bridges, who died while inpatients at the Priory Group's...
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Involving people living with mental illness in the creation of their own services
Last updated: 08/12/2023
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Demand for mental health advice soars in year after first lockdown
1 min read |Last updated: 23/03/2021
Charity sees surge in demand for mental health advice one year after first national lockdown, and warns that NHS and social care mental health services need to be ready to meet increased demand for support from people whose mental health has been severely impacted by the pandemic. Rethink Mental Illness has reported a significant increase in the number...
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Our response to the 2022-23 Mental Health Act statistics
1 min read |Last updated: 25/01/2024
The NHS has today (25 January 2024) released its annual figures about the Mental Health Act for the 2022-23 period. Here is our response to the statistics, with the headline being that there were 51,312 detentions. Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive, Rethink Mental Illness: “The data released today creates a feeling of déja vu. While it’s good to see...
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Rethink Mental Illness responds to White Paper on Health & Care
1 min read |Last updated: 11/02/2021
The government has today unveiled a white paper, titled Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all, which signals change in health and social care for the NHS. Here's our response to the government white paper. Mark Winstanley, CEO Rethink Mental Illness, said: “Any movement towards greater integration of...
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Briefing: Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP)
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Briefing: Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) What are Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Services? EIP services are multidisciplinary community mental health services that provides treatment and support to people experiencing or at high risk of developing psychosis. This support typically continues for three years. EIP services offer a range of...
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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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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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