Mind: The big mental health report 2025

Summary

Mind’s 2025 Big Mental Health Report explores the state of mental health, and mental health services and support across England and Wales. It builds on the insights from their 2024 report and gives a comprehensive picture of mental health to date, serving as a crucial guide that anyone can use.

This year’s report, produced by Mind with support from Centre for Mental Health and research partners, explores the latest evidence on the nation’s mental healt,h including how well services are supporting mental health in England and Wales.

Content

Key recommendations

1 Improve timely access to quality mental health support.  

It’s crucial that people get the right mental health support when they need it, so they don’t become more unwell - this requires mental health services to change and improve. 

2 Support young people with their mental health.

More young people are experiencing mental health problems but can’t get support when they need it. Action is needed to support young people with their mental health and stop more them from reaching crisis. 

3 Tackle mental health stigma and discrimination.

Mental health stigma and discrimination is still a problem. We need targeted interventions to address these challenges, including improving data around mental health and investing in programmes to tackle stigma.

4 Deal with the social factors affecting mental health.

Several factors can cause someone to experience poor mental health or make an existing mental health problem worse, like poverty, insecure work and poor-quality housing. An effort to tackle such factors is needed to improve the mental health of our nation.