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BBC Cover zero suicide event

5/10/2019

 
Coverage of our Zero Suicide Alliance event in London yesterday. The revolution starts here...

Bereaved father leads NHS movement against suicide

It has been a painful journey for Steve Mallen, whose 18-year-old son killed himself in 2015. Edward Mallen was a talented student who had won a place at Cambridge University. The inquest into his death found he had "slipped through the cracks" of local NHS mental health services.

Inaugural conference of the zero suicide alliance

5/8/2019

 
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After four years of grief and two years of hard work and petition, The MindEd Trust, as co-Founder, in conjunction with Mersey Care, is hosting the inaugural conference of the Zero Suicide Alliance in London tomorrow.

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THE BALL IS ROLLING FOR the National Suicide Prevention Group

1/25/2019

 
Following many months of representation, research and long sessions in Committee rooms involving The MindEd Trust and several, marvellous sector advocates, the recent NHS Long Term Plan sets out a dramatic increase in mental health spending for young people, a reduction in waiting times, better community care, the ratification and funding of the national Zero Suicide Alliance, the redefinition of young people to be those aged up to 25 and crucially, the creation of support after suicide services in every part of the country.

​It is a Plan and plans need implementing, but there is more in this document and vision regarding mental health and suicide prevention than there has ever been before. The photo below (of the National Suicide Prevention Group) shows some of the dedicated campaigners, thought leaders, academics, civil servants and politicians who have made this happen. It is not glamorous. It is hard work, emanating from bone-crushing tragedy. Nor is it by any means perfect. If realised however, many lives will be saved and much misery averted. In the memory of our dear son Edward Mallen, please share.
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THE MINDED TRUST CONTRIBUTE TO A RECENT PARLIAMENTARY ROUNDTABLE ON MENTAL HEALTH

7/3/2017

 
“The NHS is only really capable of dealing with people in crisis and this they are struggling with badly owing to burgeoning demand, cost constraints and under resourcing. In many Trusts, the barriers to entry are increasing, GP referrals are being refused and clinicians are being forced to raise the severity levels at which treatment can be offered in the face of static or reducing resources and rising demand. You have to be ever more ill to secure treatment which itself is beset by unacceptable waiting lists and limited care pathways under the IAPT/CAMHS programme. The situation is thus worsening rather than improving.

With people in crisis, not only are individuals impaired, but so too are their families and communities, sometimes for years. The road to recovery from crisis is long, very expensive and typically exhibits a high probability of recurrence. The political, economic and social cost is enormous, to say nothing of the loss to society inherent in multiple impaired life paths, loss of economic contribution and the increased burden on social support systems.

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The Minded Trust is a founder member of the Zero suicide Alliance (ZSA).  The ZSA is a government backed programme focused on reducing suicide in the health service, the workplace and the community.  Please complete the ZSA awareness and training resource.  You might save a life.

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