Mental Health Action

Campaigning to transform public sector mental health services

NHS Mental Healthcare: The Erosion of Compassion and Empathic Care – online event 14th March 2026

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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.