/ Influencing policies
Matt Hancock has succeeded Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, appointed just a few days after the NHS celebrated its 70th birthday with a 3.4% increased funding settlement.
/ Families, children and young people
Many debate about the wider effects of screen time on children and young people. So, what does the evidence say?
/ Families, children and young people
Now is a particularly exciting time to be joining the Foundation because of its commitment to prevention and the leadership role it continues to play in this field. Most importantly, effective prevention avoids the considerable distress that mental ill-health causes children and their families and ensures that young people can plan for their future with hope, not fear.
/ Families, children and young people
Young fathers face significant and specific challenges which can affect their mental health. In this blog, we'll explore some of them and what we can do about them.
/ Mental health in later life
Death. It's a pretty dark topic isn't it? Not many of us want to talk about our own or loved ones' deaths before they happen. Last month, my Grandma passed away at the age of 87 after an increasingly difficult struggle with dementia.
/ Mental Health Awareness Week
For Mental Health Awareness Week, we've looked at what we can do to make ourselves less stressed, and we can all do something. But governments in the UK also need to step up and take a leading role in helping to improve our collective mental health by tackling chronic stress.
/ Mental health in the workplace
Many of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work, so it is important that our workplaces are mentally healthy.
/ Prevention resources and tools
I have real trouble with sleep, so much so that not sleeping has become a constant in my life.
/ Mental Health Awareness Week
Our CEO Mark Rowland talks about stress and Mental Health Awareness Week.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
The Mental Health Foundation received funding from DRILL (Disability Research on Independent Living & Learning) to conduct a one-year pilot study to address the high levels of physical ill-health and preventable deaths of people with serious mental health problems in Northern Ireland.
