Challenge Sheffield and SODIT work with people with lived experience of mental health distress and used a recent grant from Healthwatch Sheffield to hold the Sheffield Mental Health Challenge DayRead more
NHS England has asked stakeholders to contribute views on the challenges of transforming mental health services in the long term.Read more
Between 6 and 18 November, Professor Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights, will be visiting the UK to assess the current situation here. Because many people with lived experience have been hard hit by austerity measures, NSUN is just about to send the Special Rapporteur a written submission about poverty issues facing us.Read more
NSUN invites representatives from user-led member groups across London to a FREE networking, sharing and design programme.Read more
North East together (NEt), a regional network for people with lived experience of mental health conditions, has been running ‘A Weight off Your Mind’, a project to support people in secondary services manage their weight. NEt Secreatry Mish Lorraine reports on how focus groups led to drafting a plan which results from true service user involvement.Read more
Due to the disappointing responses to NSUN's strong letter of concern to the Review Chair and Vice Chairs about the approach being taken to the Mental Health Act Review, NSUN is now planning a further letter to the Chair and Vice Chairs and a letter to the leaders of the main political parties and relevant All Party Parliamentary Groups. Can you help with suggestions?Read more
As part of her work for the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, Dorothy Gould is trying to collect as many examples as possible of alternatives to detention/sectioning.Read more
A request for a second stakeholder consultation of the next revision of the NICE guideline on the Recognition and Management of Depression in Adults, prior to its formal publication.Read more
The Mental Health Act review has published its interim report. NSUN listed points of interest.Read more
NSUN Chair, Dr Sarah Carr, alerts members to the current funding situation. Like many other user led organisations, NSUN has found it increasingly difficult to secure core funding.Read more
Last year over 100 people gathered in Sheffield for our Annual General Meeting and Members' Event.Read more
Written by the Survivor Researcher Working Group, the SRN manifesto sets out the background and context to survivor and service user research and SRN's aims and values as a networkRead more
In his role as NSUN's London and BME Consultant, Raza Griffiths is meeting the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Health on his visit to London next week to discuss how to put BME treatment within the mental health system in the spotlight with the help of the United Nations.Read more
A meeting to be held on 12 April, to put together ideas for letters to the government and Professor Sir Simon Wessely and for a press release which advocate a human rights approach to current plans to reform the Mental Health Act.Read more
NSUN has met members of the Arena peer support group and attended a Mad Hatter Tea Party in OxfordRead more
Soul Relics is an archive of objects representing a time of struggle with mental health or personal wellbeing in their owners’ lives AND a storytelling platform.Read more
Westminster Health Forum Keynote Seminar: Where next for social prescribing in England - outcomes, patient choice and costRead more
The researchers contributed in the ‘EURIPIDES’ research project which focuses on understanding which approaches to collecting and using patient experience data are the most useful for supporting improvements in inpatient mental health care.Read more
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Headline findings from research into deaths by suicide. In 2017 The Suicide Crisis charity started a research project into deaths by suicide which involved attending every inquest which was a possible suicide in the county it operates in.Read more
The Kindred Minds BME mental health service user led manifesto is a unique resource, has been written by BME mental health service users and has a comprehensive vision for the policy and practice changes needed to improve the mental well-being of BME mental health service users.Read more
Human Rights are fundamental and currently under threat in the UK, with the proposed Brexit withdrawal Bill taking away the Charter of Rights which is essential protection for all, especially for minority groups such as mental health survivors.Read more
We've always known that some anti-depressants work for some people. This doesn't mean that the whole medical model should feel validated or justifiedRead more
The current draft guideline on the Recognition and Management of Depression in Adults is not fit for purpose. A number of mental health organisations, including NSUN, came together to write a letter to Professor David Haslam, Chair of NICE, to formally request a further full stakeholder consultation of the next revision of the guideline on the Recognition and Management of Depression in Adults, prior to its formal publication.Read more