I had a very disturbing phone call with the DWP yesterday in regards to a PIP assessment. I was calling for the family member as they cannot use the phone.

DWP - Can they clean themselves and their home and do they have a pet?

Me - No they can’t, they get help to do that.

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Want to join me on the Board of Mental Welfare Scot? Vacancy details below ... particularly looking for someone who has experience in the field of children and young people’s mental health.

So much going on in the space of Digital Mental Health. Come and join us as a Research Associate in Data Engineering on the exciting CONNECT project jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

I caught up with my backlog of mail today as I hadn’t been in Gartnavel Royal for a long time only to find this very tasty surprise. My hypothesis is that this is from the one and only and much missed Professor Niamh Stack 🙏🙏🙏🙏 there’s one left

Evaluating the INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, article by Lydia Morris and colleagues just published:

doi.org/10.1186/s13063…

Plenty in there including:

'.. there is an urgent need for shared resources and structural change to facilitate this [inclusive trial design].'

We urgently need to move from
reactive intervention to prevention across mental health lifespan, esp. around young people & early years.

Comprehensive child MH UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti gap mapping report from Camila Perera & colleagues.

Happy to have made a small contribution to this.

Great opportunity! The IMMERSE study is currently building a Patient Advisory Panel to help shape how to best introduce a new digital mental health into routine clinical care. Contact [email protected] if you are interested! More details below also.

edin.ac/3TdY3z7

We have a Research Assistant/Associate job available in UofG GPPC within UofG SHW at University of Glasgow see job spec gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ vacancy number 097548, note the request to address all criteria in your covering letter.😊 Closing date 24 October.

Thank you Nicola Sturgeon for this unequivocal condemnation of the Home Secretary’s words last week and your dream of compassion for those seeking asylum

What do you want from a career in Psychiatry? On this #MentalHealthDay let us and RCPsychScot understand what makes a career in Psychiatry appealing. If you are a medical STUDENT, TRAINEE or senior DOCTOR please HELP by completing &RTing link.webropol.com/s/careerintent…

One of the goals of the Wellcome Mental Health & Data for Science and Health teams is to overcome barriers to the development of new mental health interventions. This award to the MHRA is one of the ways we are doing this
gov.uk/government/new…

#WorldMentalHealthDay2022

Glasgow was hungry 172 people received hot meals tonight, Retweet #glasgowneedsabuilding

Andy Gumley 💙 DClinPsyGlasgow University of Glasgow UofG SHW Hamish McLeod Thank you Andy!! Look forward to meeting you tomorrow, and across the next 3 years. Excited to get stuck in!

This thread 🧵 wins Twitter today 👇🏻

Congratulations to Filippo and Felicity Waite - two awards that couldn’t be more deserved!

My brain is shrinking – and so is my world. Could I find out what’s wrong with me? | Health | The Guardian - a powerful and moving first person and partners’s account of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Powerfully resonating theguardian.com/society/2022/o…

Only 81,326 people (Tory party members) voted for Liz Truss

Only 32% of Tory MPs voted for Truss

According to Truss on Laura Kuenssberg, only 1 Cabinet member wanted 45% cut

And precisely no-one has voted for mini-budget but it has cost millions of us billions

#DemocracyInAction

Scottish Mental Health Law review is published. Short, medium and long term recommendations for change include single piece of mental capacity legislation and broadening g scope to include cultural and economic rights 1/ mentalhealthlawreview.scot