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Employers must work on mental health

As the first of the Government's measures to get people back to work are introduced, Mind reveals shocking new evidence that employers are not willing to take on people who have experience of mental distress.

A vision for mental health in the future

Foresight, the Government's futures think tank, today publishes a report detailing how we can take on the challenges facing mental health over the next 20 years.

Charities join forces to amplify voices of people with mental health problems

Mental Health Media has taken the decision to join forces with Mind to put a powerful infrastructure behind its work in giving a strong voice to people with direct experience of mental distress.

Olympian Phillips Idowu, Joe McGann and Sophie Anderton join thousands to Get Moving on World Mental Health Day

Friday 10 October - mass participation event boosting wellbeing and breaking down the barriers of mental health stigma in Battersea Park, London

BBC Radio 4 mental health special

BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour will discuss mental health stigma in a special edition of the programme today.

Get Moving for mental health

England's first mass participation event boosting wellbeing and breaking down the barriers of mental health stigma on 4 - 12 October 2008

Running with Miriam in mind

This Sunday, 32 friends from Tyne Tees will be running the Great North Run in memory of their friend Miriam Ogden, who tragically took her own life last year.

Mind on the Paul O’Grady Show

The Paul O'Grady Show has chosen to work with Mind to raise awareness of mental health.

Ecominds offers pots of Big Lottery Fund cash to local environmental projects

Mental health charity Mind will celebrate the launch of Ecominds, its new multi-million pound grant giving scheme, by holding a garden party in London today

Mind comments on Healthcare Commission Community Mental Health Survey

There are still significant numbers of people with long-term health needs who are not involved in planning their care.

Mind calls for an end to using police cells as a place of safety

Mind is calling for an end to the practice of detaining people with mental health problems in police cells for up to 72 hours when they have committed no offence and are in urgent need of medical care.

Mind comments on research into rates of escape from secure hospitals

The vast majority of mental health patients in low to medium secure mental health hospitals have committed no offence at all.

Moving People is changing its name to 'Time to Change'

Long waiting times for psychological therapies harmful, says mental health report

A group of leading mental health charities has today published a report which says that the lives of those stuck on long NHS waiting lists for psychological treatments are being damaged as a result.

Healthcare Commission reveals the extent to which acute mental health wards are failing patients