🚨 NEW: The Government has announced the first ever Men's Health Strategy
It aims to tackle the "physical and mental health challenges" men and boys face every day by:
- Partnering with the Premier League to link football clubs with local NHS trusts for suicide prevention training and support
- Promoting NHS Talking Therapies and Every Mind Matters through football channels
- Investing £3.6m in suicide prevention projects for middle aged men
- Expanding mental health support teams in schools to reach 900,000 more pupils
- Introducing home testing for men with prostate cancer from 2027 and allowing them to order tests through the NHS App
- Investing £3m in community based men’s health programmes
- Training NHS staff with new men’s health e-learning modules
- Piloting workplace health schemes with EDF Energy and other male dominated industries
- Trailing £200,000 worth of interventions focused on cocaine and alcohol related deaths
SCIENCE: Exercise such as walking, jogging and strength training, particularly when intense, are 'an effective treatment for depression' and 'could be considered alongside psychotherapy and antidepressants as core treatments', according to Australian research published in BMJ.
Young Irish rappers Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew have made their European music festival debut performing their global viral hit #TheSpark in front of 15,000 people at #Pukkelpop in Belgium.
In the #KingsSpeech, the UK government just committed to reforming the Mental Health Act.
We’re over the moon 🎉
This has taken years of campaigning from across the mental health sector and will make a huge difference to people's lives. 1/2
Nah man the Prime Minister elect has said “in this room right here beats the heart of our democracy” and there’s a bloke in an Elmo suit stood 2 yards from him
Spare a thought for these two idiots, Dan and Elliott, who featured on #Panorama tonight.
Neither of them will have jobs after tonight's broadcast.
Nor should they.