Can single-sex wards prevent sexual violence in mental health hospitals?
Content note: sexual abuse A joint investigation by The Independent and Sky News, published earlier this week, revealed that nearly… more
Content note: sexual abuse A joint investigation by The Independent and Sky News, published earlier this week, revealed that nearly… more
I’ve seen first-hand the steady increase and reliance on new technology, which is now wide-spread across NHS mental health wards…. more
This blog post is the text of a thread originally posted on Twitter by @jaunty_aphorism on 06/09/2023, published on the… more
As a consequence of the involvement and co-production agenda – or arguably, as a consequence of the co-option of it – it seems that things are stalling…… more
Read NSUN’s chapter in ‘Holding Our Own: A guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence’ … more
Our unifying theme, across all posts, is challenging sanism. We challenge it in whatever area of an organisation we work in just by being visible. … more
The active solidarity that is ongoing in the UK now represents the crucial coalitional and organising work of prefiguring alternative futures – right here, in the present. … more
We need alternatives which don’t yet exist in this country, because the starting point is always to look at what currently exists, rather than ask ourselves instead what is missing…. more
An empty reassurance that the Bill would not intend to criminalise those who self-harm would be of no use to us – the experiences of people who self-harm provides ample evidence that if further criminalisation is made possible then it will occur, regardless of the Bill’s intent…. more
Migration and mental health research can be an unequal process… Participatory research can challenge the power inequalities associated with mental health research…. more
I want to see better solidarity between trans and Mad movements. I want the critique of psychiatry to support trans people’s needs, and I want trans people to learn from what they share with other psychiatric survivors and service-users…. more
We’re looking for people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma to summarise and respond to recently published mental health research … more