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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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Understanding AI Chatbots: Benefits and Risks for Mental Health

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New research by the charity, Mind, has found that 18% of people had used AI chatbots to support their mental health in the last 12 months and 60% used chatbots instead of more formal support like NHS talking therapies. The reasons may be that 31% preferred AI support over formal support, 18% could not access support and 11% said existing support did

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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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Challenging Cognitive Distortions for Better Mental Health

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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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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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Understanding Mothering Sunday: History and Significance

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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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Empowering Women’s Health on International Women’s Day

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It is International Women’s Day (IWD) today. International Women’s Day (IWD) has been around since 1911. Many of the issues still impacting women’s advancement remain the same and unchallenged. IWD belongs to all who care about gender equality.   UNwomen has labelled 2026 IWD as “Rights. Justice. Action.” It has highlighted that women only have 64% the legal rights of men. Women face more

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