Deborah Williams, Christopher Egan and Sarah Rouse share their lived experience perspective on how to tackle mental health inequalities.

Andy Bell is joined by Danielle Bridge, Shoana Qureshi-Khan and Martin Bisp from VCSE organisations tackling mental health inequalities.

Sam marks Pride month with reflections on the connection between his mental health and his sexuality as a gay man.

Abdirahim Hassan and Andy Bell explore why trauma-informed care must also be anti-racist, recognising how structural racism and inequality shape mental health outcomes for racialised communities.

Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years

Andy draws on a recent roundtable to make the case for a stronger, more specialist workforce to meet the mental health needs of older people.

The government has announced an increase in mental health funding today. This is welcome, of course, but is it all it seems? Andy Bell has taken a closer look at the annual statement on NHS mental hea...

David explores how LGBTQ+ history speaks to the present, and acts as a guide to the future.

Early Support Hubs across England to receive a £7 million funding boost to bolster services for young people.

Care Quality Commission report finds mental health services are struggling to cope with high levels of need.

Mental health services are “struggling to keep pace and meet the individual needs of children and young people”, leading charities have warned

Analysis of hundreds of thousands of posts shows parents struggling to deal with overwhelmed and phone-addicted children

Andy Bell dives into the latest data on mental health services across the UK, gathered by NHS Benchmarking Network.

3 December 2025

For mental health services, the Planning Framework presents at best a mixed picture.

Andy explores the social and economic factors behind the decline in the nation's mental health, and the action needed to turn it around.

How we're working to eradicate mental health inequalities

A joint post with Andy Bell, Chief Executive of the Centre for Mental Health

Crisis and acute mental health care examines research about the most effective ways of supporting people in a mental health crisis.

Background Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with elevated all-cause mortality, with suicide cited as the second leading cause of death among individuals with EDs. Evidence suggests that individua...

This study examined patients' experiences of menstrual health in psychiatric inpatient settings in England as reported by staff and patients. Questionnaires were conducted with 67 staff members and 1...

Embedding mental health support in NHS integrated neighbourhood teams.

Laura Shields-Zeeman from the Trimbos Institute, the Netherlands, and Andy Bell consider the benefits of a mental health policy test, and what this could look like in practice.

In this article, authors Bell and Woodhead look at the terminology surrounding and impact of catastrophic events on mental health on a global basis. They outlin...

Andy examines the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, the biggest national survey of mental health among adults living in England