RCPsych President Lade Smith CBE responds to PM's announcement on reform of the fit note process

'If the Prime Minister is serious about reducing the number of people out of work for mental health problems he must tackle the mental illness crisis. Addressing the causes, while also

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'It was psychologists who promoted an ideology that was almost impossible to challenge; who, as the Cass report found, largely failed to carry out proper assessments of troubled young people and who failed in their most basic duty to keep proper records'.
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In today’s The Times and The Sunday Times - Sunday paper of the year! - I’ve written about The Spectator’s massage parlour correspondent and why I think men who pay for sex are no better than rapists

Let’s stop pretending that paying for sex is anything but abuse

thetimes.co.uk/article/084b99…

People with mental illness continue to have high rates of smoking. It is a main reason why life expectancy in mental illness is around 15 years lower.

Public health measures like this are literally vital.

Dear ⁦NHS England⁩ , regarding your decommissioning decisions around ⁦NHS Practitioner Health⁩ , how is it going ? As planned ? Do not TELL us you care about the people who care ….. SHOW US

An Open Letter from NHS Staff to the Health Secretary and the CEO of NHS England
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Please share this open letter Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 Trisha Greenhalgh Doctors’ Association UK 💙 Louella Vaughan Roshana 🦴 Simon Fleming 🛠 Martin McKee 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 Ben White Dr Asif Qasim 💙 David Oliver. Thank you 🙏

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Coming soon! I hope this chapter is a useful up to date resource for trainees at all levels.

Eating Disorders (Chapter 12) - Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry ⁦Royal College of Psychiatrists⁩ ⁦Royal College of PsychiatristsTrainees⁩ ⁦Royal College of PsychiatristsEDFac⁩
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A lucky one for me today

Jan 2024: Rishi Sunak, 'We're investing record sums in the NHS.. Record number of doctors and nurses.. Ambulance times are lower'

April 2024: Time headline, 'Over 250 A&E patients die each week due to long NHS waiting times'

➡️To match France's health spending per head, the UK

EXCL: UK government has received advice from own lawyers that Israel has breached international law in Gaza but failed to make it public - by ⁦⁦Toby Helm⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Real-time suicide statistics released today, up to Dec 2023. Little evidence of change - figures tend to fall late in the year.

Importantly, no upward trend despite many facing economic adversity.

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1/ It was an enormous honour and delight to give the 2024 The Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize Lecture this week, on the topic of 'Consciousness in humans and in other things' .University of Sussex CIFAR. You can (re)watch it here: royalsociety.org/science-events…

As a psychiatrist I am grateful to psychiatrists like George Kirov who have made it possible for me to safely have ECT. Which has probably saved my life on more than one occasion. And has let me be happy.

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It felt like a tough one today