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Topic lead Deborah Dover

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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

    • 28 articles
    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

    • 38 articles
    Learning from suicide-related compensation claims: an updated thematic review (NHS Resolution, 8 October 2026)
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135 articles in this category

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

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  2. Shame and stigma - Why doctors won't seek help for their mental health

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    • 1,342 views

  3. ‘Seeing the wood for the trees’ – a model for discussion. Finding and sharing mental health resources for effective learning

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    Patient Safety Learning
    • 1 comment
    • 2,563 views

  4. Do we need psychiatric hospitals? Insights and views from Trieste, Italy (podcast series)

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    • 1,838 views

  5. The High Intensity Network (HIN) approach and SIM model for mental health care and 'high intensity users' – what are your views?

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    • 15 comments
    • 12,096 views

  6. CQC - Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: Progress report (December 2021)

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    • 1,554 views

  7. Northern Ireland Department of Health - Mental Health Strategy Delivery Plan for 2022/23 (18 July 2022)

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    • 1,623 views

  8. Ministerial Statement: Mental Health Update (23 January 2023)

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    • 1,182 views

  9. Ministerial Statement – Mental health inpatient services: Improving safety (28 June 2023)

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    • 1,050 views

  10. House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report of session: Progress in improving NHS mental health services (21 July 2023)

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    • 755 views

  11. Building trust in addiction treatment: A foundation for patient safety

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    • 1,724 views

  12. Discharge from mental health care: making it safe and patient-centred (PHSO, 1 February 2024)

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    • 2,363 views

  13. Association of Ambulance Chief Executives open letter on the 'Right care, right person' national partnership agreement (30 January 2024)

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    • 970 views

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

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    • 1,153 views

  15. Harry’s story: Acute Behavioural Disturbance

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    • 3,255 views

  16. Acute Behavioural Disturbance: preventing future deaths

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    • 2,042 views

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

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    • 981 views

  18. Mental Health UK: 5 tips for talking to your GP about your mental health

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    • 144 views

  19. National Mental Health Nurse Directors Forum: National policy template on supportive observation and engagement (July 2018, v.2)

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    • 3 comments
    • 3,153 views

  20. Deaths in mental health detention: An investigation framework fit for purpose? (February 2015)

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    • 1,264 views

  21. Anxiety - A self help guide (Southern Health and Social Care Trust, 2013)

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    • 1,566 views

  22. NICE: Post-traumatic stress disorder. Scenario: Management of adults and children with post-traumatic stress disorder (January 2019)

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    • 2,037 views

  23. Driving improvements in NHS mental healthcare - podcast

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    • 1,528 views

  24. INQUEST Handbook

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    • 1,441 views

  25. Time To Talk Mental Health UK: Facebook support group

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    • 1,367 views
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