Rethink Mental Illness

💬 In this blog, our Director of Technology Innovation, Matthew Hill FRSA, talks about artificial intelligence (AI). By providing organisation-wide AI training, we are looking to reduce lengthy administrative tasks so that we can help our staff have more time to focus on the people who need our support 👇 https://lnkd.in/eCmbuvpc

🚨 Take part in this new consultation to make sure mental health is prioritised in the future of the NHS. With your help, we can fight for better care. Take part 👉 https://lnkd.in/dmqrAHsZ

🎄 The festive period isn't always easy for those of us living with mental illness. If you're finding things hard, you're not on your own. That's why we asked for your tips on how to manage during the holidays. Your responses showed that this time of year can be a period of reflection, happiness and perspective 👇

🚨 Health Secretary Wes Streeting has confirmed today that the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS) will stay. We are hugely relieved and grateful that the government has listened to calls from across the mental health sector to protect mental health funding. The MHIS plays a critical role in supporting the government’s commitment to achieving parity of esteem. We’re waiting to hear more on the need to increase the share of NHS funding needed to drive down waiting lists and ensure mental health services are resourced to meet demand. We wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all of our campaigners who emailed their MP on this crucial issue. Over 500 of you took action – and it worked! We couldn’t do what we do without your support 💙

This shouldn’t be too much to ask for. We'll never stop fighting for the rights of people living with mental illness.

💬 Hugh* experienced severe depression, resulting in hospitalisation, losing his flat, and staying in a care home. Now in supported housing, he's reconnected with friends and is the happiest and healthiest he’s ever been. Read his story 👉 https://bit.ly/3Vc2kX3 *A stock photo has been used at the request of the author.

🗓️ Mark your calendars! This year's #TimeToTalk Day is 6 February 2025. Join millions of people in the nation's biggest mental health conversation. Talk. Listen. Change lives 👉 https://lnkd.in/d8VnFMrv

We can't let the government scrap the vital policies which protect rates of mental health funding. Help them make the right decision. Use our template to email your MP today 👉 https://bit.ly/4f7FOpD

🚨 Mental health services are at breaking point. Yet the government could be about to scrap vital policies which protect mental health funding. We can’t let that happen. Please, use our template to email your MP today. It takes two minutes 👉 https://bit.ly/4f7FOpD

🚨 Mental health services are already stretched beyond capacity. Yet there are reports that the government may axe vital safeguards for mental health funding. Alongside 17 organisations, we've written to the PM asking to protect funding for services 👇