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If you're trans or non-binary, what's your experience of GP services?

In response to the national LGBT survey's findings, the Government published the LGBT Action Plan. But work by NHS England on improving access and ... View article...

LGBT+ veterans redress scheme to launch in January

The government has promised a £50m compensation scheme for victims of the "gay ban" in the UK military. View article...

Finland's first openly gay ice hockey player found dead in suspected murder

Finland's first openly gay ice hockey player has been found dead in a suspected shooting murder. Janne Puhakka, 29, was found dead at his home on ... View article...

How Stonewall's lucrative workplace diversity scheme fell apart

As high-profile organisations cut ties with the influential LGBT charity, criticism is mounting against its pervasive gender ideologies. View article...

Scientists find link between mental health at 11 and future obesity

The study found better mental health and psychosocial well-being at 11 – but not 14 – was associated with the reversal of being overweight or obese by ... View article...

Teenage social media use strongly linked to anxiety and depression, UK study finds

... mental health services has surged in recent years. Academics from Oxford university, who are carrying out the largest global study of teenage mental  ... View article...

Trauma greater among hospitalised children denied play time, report finds

Children in hospital are more likely to experience trauma and mental health issues if they are denied opportunities to play, according to a new ... View article...

Schoolchildren at The Firs celebrate World Mental Health Day

Children at the leading independent school enjoyed celebrating HelloYellow day, organised by Young Minds UK to raise awareness of mental health in ... View article...

Big Mental Health Conversation event for Young People

Around 200 children aged 13-16years from schools across Kent are getting together to talk about mental health at this year's Big Conversation ... View article...

Mental health in the workplace – caring for staff

It acts as a personal but also a corporate reminder to check in with friends, colleagues and loved ones to talk about mental health, and to make sure ... View article...

Mental health benefit claims surge to 400 a day

Almost 145,000 people whose primary condition was mental health related were approved for personal independence payments (PIP) in the 2023-24 ... View article...

'Where is the mental health movement leading us – and why am I not invited?'

This World Mental Health Day, poet Charly Cox, who was diagnosed with Bipolar age 19, shares her anger at the dilution of a conversation she ... View article...