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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

    • 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. Towards equality for mental health: Developing a cross-government approach

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  2. StopSIM: Mental health is not a crime (21 April 2021)

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    • 3,179 views

  3. 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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    • 11,971 views

  4. A feasibility assessment of Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) implementation in London, England (30 September 2019)

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    • 1,387 views

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

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    • 1,798 views

  6. COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan: Government policy paper (31 March 2021)

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    • 1,228 views

  7. Maternal Mental Health Alliance. Maternal mental health during a pandemic: A rapid evidence review of COVID-19’s impact (March 2021)

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    • 2,269 views

  8. Patient safety and risk management in mental health (15 December 2020)

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  9. Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Call for an independent review into the practice of ECT

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

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    • 2,533 views

  11. Staff experiences and understandings of the REsTRAIN Yourself initiative to minimise the use of physical restraint on mental health wards (4 January 2019)

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    • 1,113 views

  12. WHO: QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation (12 November 2019)

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    • 3,234 views

  13. Towards safer services: National minimum standards - organisational restraint reduction plans (December 2019)

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    • 1,207 views

  14. Webinar: Advancing mental health equalities. Making mental health care fairer for all (1 December 2020)

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    • 1,052 views

  15. Department of Health and Social Care: Staying mentally well: winter plan 2020 to 2021

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    • 1,161 views

  16. CQC: Out of sight – who cares?: Restraint, segregation and seclusion review (23 October 2020)

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    • 3,730 views

  17. BMA. Minds apart: race and differential outcomes (9 October 2020)

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    • 1,316 views

  18. The King's Fund: Resources supporting our mental health and wellbeing

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  19. Blog series: A Day with Dave

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  20. Thriving at work: The Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers (October 2017)

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    • 1,183 views

  21. Protecting the mental health of UK paramedics (January 2019)

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    • 2,346 views

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

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    • 1,319 views

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

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    • 2,004 views

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

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  25. Shelford Group: Mental Health Optimal Staffing Tool (MHOST) (10 May 2019)

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