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Mental health providers from across the public and voluntary sector urged to showcase services that ‘promote positive mental health’.

In an exclusive interview ahead of his keynote speech at next month's Design in Mental Health Network conference , NHS England inclusive design lead Max Marulli de Barletta told The Network editor Mary-Louise Clews why the shift fo neighbourhood health should not be seen as a rush to blanket remote care, and why every local NHS system should have someone “whose job it is to think specifically about inclusive digital design”.

Campaigners back a committee of MPs call for a severe mental illness one-stop-shop community pilot to be extended

Mental health, addiction and working-age adult social care provider says its new identity aims to ‘clarify its offering and reflect its holistic ‘whole you’ care model’.

A mental health unit providing care for older adults in Walsall has marked its first year of operation.

Staff alarm specialist Pinpoint has extended its support of St Ann’s Hospital, installing its safety alarm system in a new 2-storey building which is due to open in April 2026.

With up to 1.6 million people in the UK living with Seasonal Affective Disorder, healthcare professionals across the Black Country are using nature to tackle mental health issues and promote wellbeing during colder, darker months.

New specialist mental health hospital opens to perinatal Mums, babies and families across Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales.

Health on the High Street marks International Men’s Day with successful men’s health event.

In a UK first, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with mental health charity Off The Ropes to open the NHS’s first on-site boxing gym, located at the Trust’s Goldie Leigh site in London.

Willmott Dixon has commissioned comprehensive fire safety tests for cavity barriers on Cross-Laminated Timber to eliminate a technical gap that has created uncertainty and delays on cross-laminated timber (CLT) projects across the sector.

A free public exhibition of more than 50 artworks showcasing the best service user and staff art, music and literature from across Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP), is being held this week.

Funding to modernise intensive care and cardiac units at St Peter’s Hospital.

Britplas is incorporating therapeutic and recovery-focused design elements into secure healthcare perimeter systems, aiming to broaden how fencing is used within clinical environments.

Kingston and Richmond CAMHS join South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust revealed its ‘Room to Breathe’ garden at Amersham Hospital.

Assa Abloy becomes D&D Technologies distributor in UK & Europe.

Manufacturer Vernacare has launched its Vortex Air+ Human Waste Disposal Macerator.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust drives digital transformation of mental health facilities.

UVC device helps to reduce formation of bacteria in waste pipes.