Consultants

Steve Appleton

Steve Appleton has over 25 years’ experience of working in health and social care, as a practitioner, senior manager and as a consultant.Read more

Dr Jed Boardman

Dr Jed Boardman is a Consultant Psychiatrist with experience of advising on social inclusion, employment and welfare benefit matters.Read more

Stephany Carolan

Stephany Carolan has expertise in service and strategic development and has wide-ranging experience of working across systems to support change.Read more

Eva Cyhlarova

Eva is a research consultant in mental health, health and social care with experience of leading research projects.Read more

Rob Fitzpatrick

Rob Fitzpatrick has worked as a practitioner, action researcher and development manager in the fields of mental health, social care, housing and criminal justice.Read more

Matt Fossey

Matt has worked with the Centre for Mental Health for over 5 years and has a background in social work, health services management and service improvement and strategic development.Read more

Andy Johnston

Andy Johnston has 27 years experience in mental health services and has a track record in developing services and supporting organisations through their workforce.Read more

Marion Kerr

Marion Kerr is a senior health economist with an interest in measuring the quality of healthcare.Read more

Prof. Hilary McCallion CBE

Hilary McCallion is an independent healthcare consultant and an academic and clinical leader in mental health nursing.Read more

Lawrence Moulin

Lawrence Moulin is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and has over 30 years’ experience working in the NHS and at the Department of Health.Read more

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Crisis contacts

The Centre for Mental Health cannot respond to individual medical queries. But there are helplines you can call listed here.

Missed opportunities

We reviewed recent evidence about children's mental health, and found that children wait on average 10 years before receiving help.

What is recovery?

Recovery is about building a meaningful and satisfying life, whether or not there are recurring or ongoing symptoms or mental health problems.

Risk, Safety and Recovery argues that risk and safety are rightly major concerns in mental health care but that traditional clinical management methods of assessing risk have stood in the way of helping people to recover their lives.

About us

The lives of people with mental health conditions are harder, poorer and shorter than they should be. We're working on ways to fix this.

Secure mental health services

Secure mental health services treat people with severe mental health problems who pose a risk to the public. But the services are subject to long delays and patients getting stuck.

Fatherhood

What impact do fathers have on their children's mental health?

Parity of esteem

Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. There are however many areas where parity of esteem has not yet been realised.

The IPS Fidelity Scale

The fidelity scale determines the extent to which an existing employment service is delivery the IPS approach. Test your service against the fidelity scale here.

Costs of perinatal mental health problems

Perinatal mental health problems carry a total cost to society of about £8.1 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK. But the NHS would need to spend just £337 million a year to bring perinatal mental health care up to the recommended level.