Children’s mental health: growing together
It’s time to take action around young people’s mental wellbeing and growth.
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Menopause awareness: the M word and you
A passage in life that happens to all women and people with a cervix, despite half the population going through the menopause it is still continually misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
FIRST HAND: a Mencap campaign assistant shares their experience of getting the COVID-19 vaccine
As people across the UK continue to get the first and second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Vijay, a campaign assistant at Mencap who has a learning disability himself, shares his experience .
Brain scans powered by artificial intelligence could diagnose dementia in a day
Pre-clinical trials run by the University of Cambridge show that artificial intelligence may soon allow doctors to diagnose dementia in a single day.
Processing social anxiety as the UK reopens post-pandemic
The course of the coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly caused stress and anxiety for millions of people, but as restrictions ease, a new wave of social anxiety is preventing some from returning to normal life.
Applications for Changing Places £30 million funding pot now open with councils urged to apply
Councils are now being urged to apply for a share of a £30 million funding pot to install Changing Places Toilets in public places and tourist attractions.
Destigmatise schizophrenia this National Schizophrenia Awareness Day
One of the most misunderstood mental health conditions, schizophrenia is continually vilified. As the conversations around mental health advance, schizophrenia should come to the forefront.
Clinically vulnerable children and children living with at-risk adults to be offered COVID-19 vaccination
Children aged 12 and over who are classed as clinically vulnerable or living with at-risk adults will be offered a COVID-19 vaccine after Health Secretary Sajid Javid accepts the advice of scientific advisers.
Doddie Weir encourages urgency for MND cure to be made in same way as rush to find COVID vaccine
Former rugby player and motor neurone disease campaigner, Doddie Weir is calling on politicians and scientists to replicate the speed in which a vaccine was developed for the coronavirus to find a cure for MND.
Charities write open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to #KeepYourPromiseBoris to fix social care
On 18 June 2021, 50 charities sent an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to keep his promise to amend and fix Britain’s broken social care system.
Scientists suggest intensive exercise could increase the risk of motor neurone disease
People who are more genetically vulnerable could be at an increased risk of motor neurone disease from regular, intensive exercise, scientists have claimed
Health: period pants brand WUKA breaks taboos with new campaign
On World Menstrual Health Day, WUKA is challenging everyone to break taboos that exist around periods with an inclusive campaign.
A new casebook reveals people with a learning disability and/or autism are being restrained over 100,000 times in modern-day asylums
Thousands of people with a learning disability and/or autism are in modern-day asylums at risk of increased levels of abuse, despite the UK government making promises to change the system 10-years on from a major hospital abuse scandal.
The UK’s youngest MP has announced she is taking time off duties to care for her mental health
Labour MP Nadia Whittome has revealed in a Twitter post that she will be taking time away from duties to look after her mental health, after being diagnosed with post-traumatic disorder (PTSD).
Living with incontinence and dementia: tips for caregivers
With Dementia Action Week underway, Ontex Healthcare UK is providing top tips for people living with, or caring for, someone with dementia who are also living with incontinence.