The global COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on European health and social care systems Demands on testing, hospital and intensive care capacity exceeding available resources everywhere—leading to concerns that vulnerable groups, including autistic people, have been excluded from services. A new paper published in the BMJ by researcher Amber Ruigrok […]
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Counselling can help young children’s mental health, says study
Counselling sessions improve long-term mental health in primary-school-aged children, according to a new study Professor Tamsin Ford’s research has implications for reversing declining mental health in young people in a Covid-19 era. A team from the University of Exeter and the University of Cambridge worked in partnership with Place2Be to assess the longer-term […]
Future-proofing mental health: Experts set out research roadmap to prioritise key areas
UK academics have called for targets for mental health to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade A group of UK academics are calling for targets for mental health in order to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade, Professor Peter Jones is one of them. Published in Journal of Mental Health […]
A Day in the Life of a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
Our NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, Benjamin Perry, is focused on both trying to better understand and intervene in the seemingly inherent cardiometabolic risk attached to psychotic disorder. He also an honorary SpR Psychiatry at Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation NHS Trust. My alarm is set for 6 am each morning, but whether I’m lucky enough […]