Seventy cheers for NHS staff

This isn’t about grand gestures, life-saving surgeries or miracle treatments – it’s about the little things that happen every day in GP surgeries, A&E departments and wards all over the UK, every day.

Mental Health and being a Woman…

There are 84 sculptures standing precariously on the edges of tall buildings in London. Each one represents one of the 84 men a week who die by suicide every week. You might have seen them overhead, on TV or in …

News reports on Anorexia can do more harm than good…

Imagine you’re a freelance journalist who’s been asked to write up a report on a disease you have no experience of, or know only a limited amount about. Whether it’s a rare form of cancer or type 1 diabetes, what …

No-one in this country “committed suicide since 1961”

“No-one in this country “committed suicide” since 1961 – that’s when suicide stopped being a crime.”

Can we stop genderising mental health please?

Boys don’t cry… but loads of women are sad, scared and suicidal too.