For decades, rising prosperity was expected to bring longer, healthier lives. In the UK, that assumption is not realised. While overall life expectancy has broadly stalled, healthy life expectancy, which is the number of years lived in good general health, is now falling. ONS data puts healthy life expectancy at around 60.7 years for men […]
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Every young person deserves the opportunity to learn, develop, and build a future they can look forward to. Yet many are classified as NEET (not in education, employment, or training). While discussion often focuses on the economic consequences, the impact on mental health deserves far greater attention. For many young people, being outside education, employment,
Autism was viewed through a predominantly male lens and diagnostic criteria reflects how it commonly presents in boys. As a result, many autistic girls are not diagnosed until adolescence or adulthood. Awareness is growing. We understand that autism in girls often looks different, and recognising these differences is essential for ensuring girls receive the understanding and support they deserve. Autism in girls
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Many professionals dedicate their careers to helping others through difficult and often traumatic experiences. While this work can be incredibly meaningful, it can also take an emotional toll. There is a profound difference between experiencing a traumatic event firsthand and listening to someone else recount theirs. Your brain and your nervous system do not always recognise this.
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Mental health support works best when you prepare for difficult moments before they happen. A personalised mental health toolkit gives you practical supports you can reach for quickly. Build your toolkit as a physical or digital collection of coping strategies, soothing items, and reminders you can use right away when stress makes clear thinking harder. Use the
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We do not experience the world exactly as it is; our experience is through our thoughts. Most of the time, that helps us make quick sense of what is occurring. However, when we are stressed, anxious, or feeling low, our thinking can start to be distorted. These patterns are called cognitive distortions,ways of thinking can make situations
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The examination period is one of the hardest times of the academic year. Deadlines pile up, revision intensifies, and the pressure to perform can feel overwhelming. Examinations are demanding, but they do not have to come at the expense of your well-being. With the right approach, you can stay productive, maintain balance, and perform at your best.
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The Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: interim report was published on 31st March 2026. For many of us, it had no surprises. Common mental health conditions and psychological distress have increased over the past two decades, particularly among younger people, from around 15–16% in the early 1990s to around 23% by the mid-2020s. In the early 2010s
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The 2 medications, lecanemab and donanemab will be reassessed for NHS use following successful appeals from their manufacturers. Last year, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded that lecanemab and donanemab should not be funded by the NHS for patients with mild cognitive impairment or early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. NICE had determined that the treatments were not a cost-effective use of limited healthcare
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Today is Mothering Sunday in England. The fourth Sunday of Lent, Mother’s Day, in the 16th century in England, people went back to their “mother” church, the church where they were baptised or where they were raised. Families may have been dispersed, working away and return to their parents, where they grew up. Gifts of wildflowers and Simnel cake would have
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