Mental Health Action: campaigning to transform NHS mental health care Mental Health Action formed in 2021 in a merger of London-based mental health activists in Keep Our NHS Public and…
The need to develop a state alternative to big tech ‘clouds’[1] to remove the threat of commercial wealth extraction and control of our public services; and how this could be done. [2] …
Martin Blanchard I retired from NHS psychiatry bruised and battered in 2013 after extensive degradation of the community service I had worked in since 1994. I was left wondering why…
NHS Mental Healthcare: the erosion of compassion and empathic care How digital & AI tech, psychotropic medication and neoliberal policies are hollowing out compassion in NHS mental healthcare An event…
A response to two amendments for the Third Reading of the Mental Health Bill October 14th from the Mental Health Action Group (https://mentalhealthaction.uk) 1. Proposal / key changes for patients with autism…
22nd September 2025 FAO Clive Lewis Dear Mainstream Labour, We are writing to you as members of the long-established Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk. As…
A national campaign to undo the monopoly of short-term behavioural therapy in the NHS We are members of the Mental Health Action group, a collaboration of Keep Our NHS Public…
Martin Blanchard writes: “In an interview with Arun Kundnani, Seda Gürses – a critical computer scientist at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands – discusses the ways tech…
Introduction to essay: The modern Democratic State and Capital: acts of exclusion, the creation of ‘bare life’, its identification, and its killing. Martin Blanchard As a professional I see, and hope for,…
LABOUR’S AUSTERITY BUDGET: OUR RESPONSE 28 March 2025 Keep Our NHS Public Cuts, Fund our NHS, News, Privatisation 1 SHARE THIS POST.. Other than repeated claims to be ‘on the side of working people’ Rachel Reeve’s…
Campaigners have accused NHS England of “closing ranks” after a mental health trust once deemed the worst performing in the country was removed from special measures. It was confirmed this…
