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15 May 2023

Support SANE this mental health awareness week – and your donation will be doubled

We are thrilled to be taking part in the Big Give’s ‘Kind2Mind’ Campaign – the online match funding campaign running from Monday 15th May to Monday 22nd May. This mental health awareness week, all donations made to SANE through our Big Give campaign page will be doubled!

All donations will …

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27 Apr 2023

Life Journeys: Depression, recovery and acceptance

When living with depression, a road to recovery can feel hard to find. In the latest series of Life Journeys, Sonia Sanghvi tells SANE what it is like to juggle medications, relationships and looking after your physical health – all whilst trying to rebuild from mental illness.

I didn’t know …

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19 Apr 2023

SANE backs families’ call for statutory public inquiry into patient deaths

Marjorie Wallace, founder and chief executive of SANE, has written an open letter to Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, backing families’ calls to convert the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry into a statutory public inquiry.

The ongoing inquiry, which is investigating up to 2000 deaths …

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03 Apr 2023

Melissa James X SANE Spotlight

Singer-songwriter Melissa James has been a SANE ambassador since 2016. As well as producing music, Melissa works and volunteers in care homes, hospitals and communities, helping spread the power of music to people with mental illness.

In our spotlight interview, we reminisced with Melissa about her fundraising Sing4SANE events and …

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17 Mar 2023

Life Journeys: Parenting and bipolar, our normal

Raising a child can be challenging for many parents. But, what is it like to be a parent whilst also suffering from bipolar disorder? Chloe Evans tells SANE how she manages being a single mum to her daughter, Nevaeh, and her bipolar diagnosis at the same time.

Becoming a mother …

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27 Feb 2023

Anorexia and men: the hidden disease

Anorexia nervosa is a torturous and life-threatening disease, which affects people across all society demographics. But anorexia is still widely seen as a mental illness which solely affects women. James Knott tells SANE what it’s like to have anorexia as a man, and how far we have to go in …

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16 Feb 2023

Global study into schizophrenia and psychosis at SANE research centre

We are thrilled to announce that The Prince of Wales International Centre for SANE Research (POWIC) is the hub for a major international study investigating the use of cannabidiol (CBD) to treat people with psychosis and schizophrenia.

The clinical trials at our centre in Oxford will investigate the effectiveness of …

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14 Feb 2023

SANE’s response to the National Audit Office report on mental health services

Millions of people with mental health problems, including children with eating disorders, are missing out on NHS treatment or face lengthy waits, according to the National Audit Office.

In a new report, Progress in improving mental health services in England, the spending watchdog said that while the number of people …

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14 Feb 2023

SANE responds to Joint Committee’s Draft Mental Health Bill report

SANE welcomes the report by the Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill and its recognition that proper resourcing of the reforms will be crucial.

The Committee’s report follows extensive hearings to scrutinise the draft legislation.

The committee examined the extent to which the draft Bill would ensure …

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09 Feb 2023

SANE comments on £150 million for mental health services

The government has said it will spend £150million up to April 2025 to better support people experiencing – or at risk of experiencing – mental health crises to receive care and support in more appropriate settings outside of A&E.

Anyone experiencing a mental health emergency will benefit from more tailored …

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