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…
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…
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.
