A few of us working in and around Black mental health have been working behind the scenes on a new Black Mental Health Manifesto. Today is finally launch day ✊🏾

Follow Black Mental Health Manifesto to find out more later this morning.

#ProtectBlackMentalHealth

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'The question of teen mental health is complicated and resistant to any single explanation' Good critique here of Jonathan Haidt's 'Anxious Generation' argument

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Thanks Jessica Glenza for covering this in the The Guardian.

'Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ work'.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…. A few thoughts below...

Proposed Assisted Dying Bill: implications for mental healthcare and psychiatrists | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3QmwqEW

We're looking forward to this lecture by Professor Emma Smith, Oxford's First Folios: same book, different lives, on 20 June.

Thank you for the many positive tweets I’ve seen about @BBCQT its good to debate with colleagues the issue of the day. We need empathy in our public discourse thank you @NHSconfed team and members

BBC Question Time I think the purpose of a govt saying 'sick note culture' is to get people to turn against each other. It's not just the govt blaming victims. They want people to come here (for example) and dish out blame to people who are not responsible for what's going wrong.

“The language that we use… even in the question ‘Do we have a sick note culture?’ It’s cruel”

Chair of the NHS Confederation Victor Adebowale says the use of “performative” language needs to stop, and the government should show more 'compassion'

#bbcqt bbc.in/4b8DVY2

'A shift in medical thinking is needed to appreciate the damage the immune system can do to the brain.'

Belinda Lennox's work on autoimmune psychosis in this article in The Economist on some of the bodily triggers for mental health conditions.

economist.com/science-and-te… Medical Sciences

Our Senior Research Fellow, Prof Kamaldeep Bhui @ksbhui Oxford Psychiatry, explains the importance of editorial independence in promoting good science in this article.

From health policies to clinical practice, research on mental and brain health influences many areas of public life | University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/features/…

⁦The Independent⁩
Leaked NHS figures reveal 15,000 died in care of mental health trusts in one year incl:
137 women in perinatal care
1:10 in crisis service
>500 deaths in a year at one trust

Q:Are mental health trusts safe? Is the model of care right? independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…

New standards of care about the culture of inpatient mental health services published today england.nhs.uk/long-read/cult…

NHS England is exploring ways it can reduce the amount of statutory and mandatory training that doctors undertake, to free up clinicians’ time to care for patients.

The work is one of several proposed measures to improve the working lives of staff
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Interesting new study on #psychosis risk in NW England showing higher rates in Pakistani cf. White groups, but strong protective ethnic density effects.

Rates also atypically high, unusually - higher than South London!

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Humma Andleeb 🍉

#sdmh #ethnicity

The Attune Team is in lovely Newquay Writers Retreat! Stay tuned for further updates.
#AttuneProject

The young participants in the ATTUNE Research Project delivered an incredibly impactful performance, touching on vital themes like #YouthMentalHealth , #neurodiversity , and overcoming #adversity and challenges with #services .

The person who tutored me when I did my first psychiatry attachment at medical school.

Congratulations, Mina Fazel! And please ensure that any academic reports from, say, 20 years ago are safely disposed of when you move office.

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Dear Yanis Yanis Varoufakis, I am very sorry about the way #Germany is treating you. I am actually APPALLED. I agree with you on a lot of things, from #FreeJulianAssangeNOW to #CatalunyaLliure . I disagree with you on a lot of things, my view on the #IsraelPalestineConflict being…

Very excited to share news- privileged to have been appointed to the Chair of Child and Adolescent Oxford Psychiatry - you are stuck with me for a long time to come! Can’t wait to work together for better child outcomes with all of you incredible researchers, providers & advocates