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How Climate Change Harms Mental Health in the UK  

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A report from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), published in November 2025, says that extreme weather, including flooding and heat, is among the most significant climate-related risks to mental health in the UK today. The risks are difficult for vulnerable groups when extreme conditions disrupt transport, healthcare access, housing, work, and social support.  An awareness of climate change is leading to anxiety about […]

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Factors Contributing to Falling Healthy Life Expectancy in the UK

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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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Beyond Unemployment: The Mental Health Cost of Young People Being Out of Education, Employment or Training 

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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,

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Understanding Autism in Girls: Breaking the Silence

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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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Understanding Vicarious Trauma: Recognising the Signs and Protecting Your Wellbeing

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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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Rising Mental Health Issues Among Youth: Key Findings

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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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Cost-Effectiveness of Alzheimer’s Drugs: NICE’s New Threshold Explained

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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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Coping with Anxiety in Uncertain Times

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The world grapples with ongoing challenges such as political instability, economic fluctuations, and health crises and mental health has become a concern.  A rise in anxiety and stress levels across various demographics, prompting questions on how to cope in these uncertain times.   The effects of the pandemic to geopolitical tensions, can create uncertainty. Many people may feel overwhelmed by news filled with distressing information,

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Social Media’s Impact on Teen Mental Health

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In the digital age, social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Twitter are integral to the lives of teenagers. While these platforms offer opportunities for connection, creativity, and self-expression, they also pose significant risks to mental health, contributing to rising levels of anxiety and depression among adolescents. The lockdowns with the pandemic fundamentally changed how young

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Groundbreaking Study on Severe Mental Illness in the UK

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Thousands of people living with severe mental illness across England and Wales are being invited to take part in a groundbreaking new research programme that aims to transform how conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and major depression are diagnosed and treated. Severe mental illness affects millions of people worldwide and is often linked

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