News (Mental Health)

For many communities we work with, who experience discrimination due to their age, disability or ethnicity, isolation is something that can have a significant impact.

A perspective on Mental Health Awareness Week | About 2 weeks into lockdown#3, the staff team at NDTi started sharing pictures of our individual weekly walks on our teams site...it started to widen our window to the world.

Those living in our towns and cities have to find nature where they can, not in the big spaces but in the small ones, in life, in the sky, in the cracks in the pavements.

A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views

NDTi’s Associate, Peter Bates, outlines the factors that he believes are contributing to ‘the fog of confusion and lack of positive change' around out of area placements.

Hári Sewell is founder and Director of HS Consultancy and a former executive director of health and social care in the NHS. Hári questions how much is known about the experience of out of area placements of black or other racialised people.

Isaac Samuels, the Deputy Chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group, shares his personal story of an out of area placement.

Mark Trewin, from the Department of Health & Social Care, welcomes NDTi’s Close to Home paper for highlighting the need for the whole mental health system to work together to improve access to supportive community services.

David Brindle, the Guardian’s public services editor and NDTi’s ambassador and former chair, reflects on his 2010 story about ‘out of area treatments’ in light of the Close to Home review.

Ahead of NDTi's 'Close to Home' review being published, Kate Linsky, NDTi's Programme Lead for Mental Health, introduces the paper and reflects on its recommendations for adults with mental health conditions.