Mental Health Action

Campaigning to transform public sector mental health services

Submissions to the Select Committee Inquiry into Community Mental Health February 2025

The Health and Social Care Parliamentary Committee reccently called for evidence in its inquiry into Community Mental Health services. See https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8755/ for a summary of the inquiry’s brief, and for the questions submissions are asked to respond to see https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3520/

The deadline for submissions was February 4th.

Published here are two submissions, one from MHA and a second from the Barnsley Mental Health Forum.

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Allied Voices

Campaigners, clinicians and writers we work alongside.

Campaign

Keep Our NHS Public

The parent campaign defending the NHS from privatisation — where Mental Health Action began as a working group.

Campaign

Socialist Health Association

Our founding partner organisation, whose London branch mental health sub-group co-created this coalition in 2021.

Regional campaign

Save Mental Health Services, Norfolk & Suffolk

A long-established local campaign fighting cuts and closures across Norfolk and Suffolk’s community mental health provision.

Practitioner blog

Glenda O’Brien — Substack

A retired Registered Mental Health Nurse writing on thirty years’ experience across the full spectrum of NHS mental health care.

Research

Michael Scott — CBT Watch

Ongoing independent scrutiny of the gap between what short-term behavioural therapies promise and what they deliver.

Media

The Common Good — YouTube

Our channel on the politics of mental health, featuring interviews and discussion on the crisis in NHS provision.