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How do we fix the UK's poor mental health and wellbeing challenge?

What you can do is try and prevent it being lost in the first place. Like the £45 billion that poor mental health is estimated to cost the economy. Or ... View article...

Government urged to focus on early intervention to tackle 'unprecedented' mental health ...

Children and young people's mental health charity Anna Freud wants the next government to adopt its plan to shift the emphasis from urgent mental  ... View article...

Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Charities Together survey findings on staff mental health

Chronic workforce shortages and sky-high demand for services are driving a mental health emergency, whilst sustained real-terms pay cuts have exposed ... View article...

Tom Crewe · Eye to the Keyhole:

... homosexual offences in 19th-century Britain is precisely that they were not exceptional. Though there was a large and insidious increase in the ... View article...

Cumberland's mental health workers gear up for two-week strike

MENTAL health social workers are set to commit to two weeks of strike action in their fight for fair job evaluation. View article...

An oral history of Queer as Folk, the groundbreaking gay series that changed British TV for good

It's early 1999. The age of consent for gay sex is being vociferously debated in Parliament. It has only been a few years since a Lazarus ... View article...

Scottish primary schools appoint children as 'LGBT champions'

... LGBT Youth Scotland. The charity, which received nearly £1 million of taxpayers' money last year, also urges head teachers to install gender ... View article...

Dissecting Jean Genet's impact on pop culture

Always fiercely unique and innovative, Genet's exploration of themes ranging from criminality, vagrancy, and evil to colonialism, homosexuality , ... View article...

LGBT activist Roy Tan files challenge against Section 377A

A prominent Singaporean activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) rights has filed a new challenge against Section ... View article...

The deaths of three trans teens expose the state of youth mental health provision

Afterwards, his family begged for better resourcing of mental health services. “No parent should ever lose a child,” said Emily and Mark Pulman. “We ... View article...

Boys are suffering in silence, says mental health charity TIC+

A charity that has helped almost 4,000 people with their mental health say some boys in the area are "suffering in silence". TIC+ offers support ... View article...

More than three in four NHS workers have experienced mental health issues

Many NHS Trusts are already doing what they can to prioritise the mental health and wellbeing of our NHS staff, but it doesn't go far enough. “We will ... View article...