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Why play matters when children face hospital treatment
A shortage of health play professionals is leaving many children in English hospitals without dedicated support to manage…

Nature access is sharply unequal across England, research finds
Research from the Wildlife Trusts and Liberal Democrats for Nature and Climate finds that 44% of English parliamentary…

A new touring support fund addresses the mental-health strain of life on the road
A programme backed by the Music Industry Therapist Collective aims to bring occupational health, mental-health education and pastoral…

Why England’s Record Antidepressant Use Cannot Be Explained by Overprescribing Alone
Antidepressant prescribing in England reached a record level in 2025–26. The figures raise legitimate questions about treatment, but…

Lindsay Clancy was failed by our warped understanding of motherhood | Moira Donegan
Most family annihilators are men. It’s a grim fact that such incidents are common enough to have a…

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
You write that “changing the way you think about the brain cliff can literally change the way you…

Mental health groups have ‘failed to acknowledge’ risk of violence, says Mind chief
Mental health organisations have “failed to acknowledge” the risk of violence from a minority of people with severe…

Alzheimer’s trial to test drug on people without symptoms to see if it can be prevented
People without memory loss will be offered an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that could stop the development of the…

A look inside the courtroom during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial – video
The weeks-long murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother accused of fatally strangling her three children, has…

