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  1. Anxiety and depression

    • 5 articles
    The NHS’s approach to treating anxiety urgently needs an overhaul (HSJ, 25 March 2026)
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  2. Children, young people and families

    • 27 articles
    ‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her (The Guardian, 8 November 2025)
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  3. Eating disorders

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    Eating disorders: Doctors and patients left in “nightmare situation” amid long waits, unsafe care, and preventable deaths (BMJ, 11 September 2026)
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  4. Links with poor physical health

    • 1 article
    Improving the Physical Health of People with Serious Mental Illness: A Practical Toolkit (May 2016)
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  5. Quality Improvement in mental health

    • 18 articles
    How the physical environment shapes emotional regulation, sensory experience, and feelings of safety in mental health
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  6. Safeguarding

    • 3 articles
    Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018: statutory guidance for NHS organisations in England, and police forces in England and Wales
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  7. Suicide and self-harm

    • 37 articles
    Suicide and attempted suicide within inpatient psychiatric units: A 10-year mixed-methods analysis of 143 serious events across 50 facilities (1 September 2026)
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134 articles in this category

  1. Top picks: Mental health resources for patients and staff

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  2. Why letting go is so hard: A rapid ethnographic study of enhanced observations in acute mental health wards (December 2026)

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  3. Advocating for an adult family member or friend in a mental health crisis: Your rights and your role (Making Families Count)

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  4. Unequal benefits, unequal harms: AI mental health chatbots, inequality and the risks of self-guided care (July 2026)

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  5. Valdo Calocane inquiry offers valuable lessons for overhauling mental health services (BMJ, 17 June 2026)

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  6. The Foundation Reports: The state of mental health inequality in the UK (June 2026)

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  7. Significant changes for independent health and care providers of mental health services from April 2026: the Human Rights Act 1998 and “public authority” status (Bevan Brittan, 21 April 2026)

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  8. Tackling alarm fatigue: how a joint QI initiative reduced false alarms by 99%

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  9. Health and Social Care Committee: Community Mental Health Service (Fourth Report of Session 2024–26)

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  10. Trusted information collection: severe mental illness (Patient Information Forum)

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  11. Mind: The big mental health report 2025

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  12. World mental health today: latest data (WHO, 2025)

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  13. I was an inpatient on a mental health ward – here’s what needs to change (HSJ, 17 June 2025)

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  14. Most people receive support from community mental health services, but how safe are they? (28 April 2025)

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  15. CQC: Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2023/24 (13 March 2025)

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  16. Patient safety incidents within adult community-based mental health services in England: A mixed-methods examination of reported incidents, contributory factors, and proposed solutions (4 February 2025)

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  17. Acute Behavioural Disturbance: preventing future deaths

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  18. Harry’s story: Acute Behavioural Disturbance

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  19. The use and impact of surveillance-based technology initiatives in inpatient and acute mental health settings: a systematic review (29 November 2024)

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  20. Acute behavioural disturbance: a physical emergency psychiatrists need to understand (14 October 2020)

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  21. Consensus on acute behavioural disturbance in the UK: a multidisciplinary modified Delphi study to determine what it is and how it should be managed (9 May 2023)

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  22. Home Office and DHSC: Evaluating the implementation of Right Care, Right Person (3 December 2024)

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  23. Hundred Families website

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  24. What does ‘safe care’ mean in the context of community-based mental health services? A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of service users, carers, and healthcare providers in England (11 September 2024)

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  25. Life Beyond the Cubicle: eLearning to support working well with families during mental health crises

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