‘Labour’s mental health review needs to reframe overdiagnosis’
We’re having the wrong debate about mental health diagnosis. Following Wes Streeting’s announcement of a review into the…
Mental Health
‘From maternity to inequality: evidence, consultation and context must be at the heart of the independent review into mental health’
Yesterday the Government launched an Independent Review into mental health conditions, autism and ADHD. It is an expert-led…
‘The Labour manifesto’s health policies demonstrate little-noticed radicalism’
Labour launched a manifesto today in front of a single word: change. It’s a powerful message to a…
‘Here’s how the Tories could learn from Wales’ NHS – if they stop attacking it’
Wales was the birthplace of the NHS. 75 years on, Aneurin Bevan would be proud to know that…
‘Poverty has many root causes – Labour must tackle them all’
Next year there will be an election and Labour stands poised to take power. Unlike the late 1990’s,…
‘Streeting gets the public’s views on the NHS, even if CLPs may not like them’
Wes Streeting’s speech to Labour conference a couple of weeks ago was a memorable one. It was big,…
‘Labour must show how buildings aren’t the only way schools are crumbling’
Repeatedly claiming a public service is falling apart is a much easier political message to land if it…
We must do more on child mental health, particularly for sexual abuse survivors
Every time I speak to children in schools, I’m taken aback by their focus on mental health support…
Getting care right for children would transform this country’s mental health
Children waiting days in A&E in a mental health crisis. More than one million people turned away from…
The waste of human potential allowed by the Tories must end. With Labour, it will
The UK is suffering an employment crisis that is compounding its cost-of-living crisis. Well over a million people…
