As part of our campaign for a more accessible Talking Therapies service – reducing drop out rates, offering a wider range of therapies to meet real need, and adopting a…
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…
Read Glenda’s substack here: https://rmnglenda.substack.com/profile/posts About the Author Glenda O’Brien is a retired Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with thirty years of experience spanning the full spectrum of mental health…
Tony Baldwinson writes: This new book traces Greater Manchester’s radical mental health campaigning from 1960 to 2011. Survivors, activists and sympathetic workers challenged coercion and discrimination, creating alternatives based on…
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…
Campaigners, clinicians and writers we work alongside.
Campaign
The parent campaign defending the NHS from privatisation — where Mental Health Action began as a working group.
Campaign
Our founding partner organisation, whose London branch mental health sub-group co-created this coalition in 2021.
Regional campaign
A long-established local campaign fighting cuts and closures across Norfolk and Suffolk’s community mental health provision.
Practitioner blog
A retired Registered Mental Health Nurse writing on thirty years’ experience across the full spectrum of NHS mental health care.
Research
Ongoing independent scrutiny of the gap between what short-term behavioural therapies promise and what they deliver.
Media
Our channel on the politics of mental health, featuring interviews and discussion on the crisis in NHS provision.
