Mental Health Action

Campaigning to transform public sector mental health services

Resources: Big Tech, Digitalisation, AI and Mental Health

The Topol Review 

The Topol Review outlined recommendations to ensure the NHS is the world leader in using digital technologies to benefit patients. It will involve implementing technologies such as genomics, digital medicine, artificial intelligence and robotics at a faster pace and on a greater scale than anywhere else in the world. (Feb 2019)

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.