positivepracticeinmh

Run the National MH Awards, #PPiMH Collab & shared learning events. Winner of RCPSYCH Award 2017 . Take care of your heart 🧡💜🧡 as well as your head

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

My how they have grown 💙💙💙

[Tony Russell @tonyr2011]

Our mental health services are seriously overstretched and under resourced, so I’m totally bewildered by the apathy and lack of interest in our campaign, someone said,it’s because people are covering their arses and too frightened to put their head above the parapet r they right

[Tony Russell @tonyr2011]

The second part of our interview with true mental health champion Claire Murdoch CBE is now available to watch https://t.co/bEvgMxUm0D

[Tony Russell @tonyr2011]

You can support our campaign by donating on our GoFundMe page
https://t.co/1RfNMRDPhW
Or subscribing to our new YouTube channel https://t.co/bEvgMxUm0D

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

Delighted to launch our Talking Mental Health Services YouTube channel - subscribe free and see part one of our talk with former National Director for Mental Health and CEO of CNWL Claire Murdoch CBE - a true champion for mental health
https://t.co/mwHXGtGkZx

[Tony Russell @tonyr2011]

We launched this book https://t.co/hyOHKvTexZ hoping it would help stimulate a national debate and help fund our ‘Talking Mental Health Services campaign. If u care as much as we do, pls buy the the book or donate to our GoFundMe page https://t.co/1RfNMRDPhW

[Tony Russell @tonyr2011]

“Telling It Like It Is” features first hand accounts from people working on the front line of mental, Providing a unique insight on the pressures staff are facing, the book also features the experiences of people using the services. Available on Amazon £9.99

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

The second part of our interview with true mental health champion Claire Murdoch CBE is now available to watch on. https://t.co/mwHXGtGkZx

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚠️The Government wants to force Britons to submit ID checks to use eBay and other online shopping websites.

We warned that the Government's eye-watering internet control plans wouldn't stop with social media restrictions.

Now, any platform where users can talk to each other could be put behind the Great British Firewall.

Britain must not sleepwalk into this authoritarian nightmare. We must say no to passports for the internet - our freedoms hang in the balance.

Read⤵️
https://t.co/33UAr930FV

[Mersey Care NHS FT 🏳️‍🌈 @Mersey_Care]

We need you 🫵🏽

Could you spare some time to volunteer with us? Whether you want to give something back, meet new people or gain valuable experience, volunteering is a brilliant way to get involved.

Come and be part of something that matters 👇🏽

https://t.co/cxeIibPZAD

#NHSVolunteer

[Chelsea Supporters’ Trust⭐️⭐️ @ChelseaSTrust]

The first of our new regular survey, which will be used as a baseline to show the club trends on how supporter sentiment changes over a variety of areas, will be closing Wednesday evening. Please be sure to fill out the survey that was emailed 29 October to all CST members in order to get your thoughts heard

[Azamara @Azamara]

From Rome to Nice, discover the Mediterranean at your own pace.

Sail aboard Azamara Onward, Nov. 4–11, 2028, with an overnight in Livorno, a late night in Monte Carlo, and an overnight in Nice.

Explore more: https://t.co/QI4RSTfQam

#Azamara #MoreToSea

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

You can support our campaign by donating on our GoFundMe page
https://t.co/sX5cUvZTYJ
Or subscribing to our new YouTube channel https://t.co/mwHXGtFN9Z

[Equally Well UK @EquallyWellUK]

People living with severe mental illness are 4 times more likely to die early from cardiovascular disease. New report published by @TheBHF with Centre for Mental Health and Equally Well UK sets out how policy can close the gap: https://t.co/51cPDHjujN @BHFpolicy

[Tony Russell @tonyr2011]

Delighted to launch our Talking Mental Health Services YouTube channel - subscribe free and see part one of our talk with former National Director for Mental Health and CEO of CNWL Claire Murdoch CBE - a true champion for mental health
https://t.co/bEvgMxUm0D

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

You can support our campaign to get the public talking about services and a Westminster debate by donating on our GoFundMe page
https://t.co/sX5cUvZTYJ
or by purchasing our book available on Amazon at https://t.co/sFftiEyDXy

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

You may have seen the news that I’ve been arrested!
(or beaten up, in a fight with Andy Burnham, Nigel Farage or the Bank of England boss, or even that I’ve died)

Thankfully, as far as I’m aware, none have ever happened. These are criminal scammers’ fake ads. They’re rife on social media right now. They’re trying to get you to click to fake sites.

I don’t do any ads, never mind for Quantum AI, Bitcoin Trader, Bitcoin Code, or “stuff the establishment don’t want you to know”. Please be vigilant.

[ITV News @itvnews]

An 81-year-old grandmother with terminal cancer was left for 48-hours in hospital cupboard, ITV News' @BeccaBarry reports

Pam Smith said she felt "abandoned" by the NHS when she was left in a hospital storeroom following chemotherapy treatment.

https://t.co/KoBQO5Iuap

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

@Azeem_Majeed @pash22 Actually it’s a platform for connecting people,and in our experience it’s very effective

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

We launched this book https://t.co/sFftiEzbN6 hoping it would help stimulate a national debate and help fund our ‘Talking Mental Health Services campaign. If u care as much as we do, pls buy the the book or donate to our GoFundMe page https://t.co/sX5cUw0rOh

[Alina V @AlinaV_Psy]

I may say something controversial.

You can't run mental health services that are overstretched and overwhelmed for years, where clinicians are forced to prioritise high risk, raise the bar for entry and cut anything seen as a "luxury", and then expect junior doctors to develop a high standard of knowledge and skill.

What they learn instead is how to manage risk and reject referrals.

In a system like this, a lot is treated as a “luxury”:

• the therapeutic value of the relationship itself, and of contact with a team (before, it was the status quo. Now patients are not kept open without a clear “intervention”, while the relationship itself can be the intervention)
• psychotherapy skills integrated in practice
• a psychiatrist seeing a patient when there is no medication need

One of the most frustrating phrases I heard in my NHS consultant years was: "I'm not going to prescribe for this patient, so there's no point in seeing them."

At first I thought this came from more biologically oriented colleagues. But when resources are this limited, even caring, formulation-focused psychiatrists end up working the same way.

Trainees learn that this is normal. Few people have time to add: "It shouldn't be like this. It's because of a lack of resources."

So, as generations change, expertise narrows to risk and caseload management.

The RCPsych is clearly aware of this, and the push to bring formulation into training is a good step against the current. My worry is that it becomes another tick-box: something to evidence during training, before trainees go back to copying what they see consultants do on a daily basis.

Psychotherapy training is often treated the same way: do your two cases, attend Balint, get signed off, move on.

For five years I taught psychiatrists in the West Midlands how to integrate psychotherapy and lifestyle skills into everyday practice. The idea is that these skills are not a box to tick, but tools to use in every clinical encounter. Not something to have signed off and forget about. But courses won't change much.

What's needed is less pressure on the system, so that the people who care still have the space to pass on what good care looks like.

P.S. This isn't about any specific trust. It's about a trend across mental health services.