MENTAL HEALTH

Mental health first-aid at work The House of Commons had been due to debate Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) last Wednesday (19th December) and specifically whether there should be a requirement on employers to provide mental health first-aid training, as

I recently gave a presentation on my experience of mental health and ill-health to a local branch of IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety & Health) Click link here A delightful audience, both warm and inquisitive and accepting – thank you!

Hey it’s World Bipolar Day – apparently the world’s bipolar too! There’s a lot of it about! Lots of info at the Bipolar Organisation I think all we really want is acceptance, the obliteration of stigma, and the understanding that this is

The UN Goals for Sustainable Development, or Global Goals, were launched at the beginning of 2016. They have been much publicised recently through Project Everyone, devised by the filmmaker Richard Curtis (founder of Comic Relief). To find out more about the

Today, 1st November, amid echoes of Samhain, is National Stress Awareness Day hot on the heels of the excellent report on mental health last week, Thriving at Work a review of mental health and employers! The review sets out six clear standards for

Last night I was privileged, as a Business Disability Forum Associate, to share an evening, one of a series, of ‘Courageous Conversations’ at an American bank in London, as part of their Disability Advocacy (& LGBT) Networks. The conversation was