The Blessed Month of Ramadhan
To celebrate Ramadhan our IAPT colleague Gul H has kindly written this piece to highlight the meaning and purpose of Ramadhan. The Blessed Month of Ramadhan Islam is the world's second largest religion after Christianity with more than one billion followers. Around one million worshippers from over 180 countries will
UK Dementia Congress 2016
Ripal from Touchstone's BME Dementia Service will be giving a presentation on Dementia Within BME Communities at the UK Dementia Congress, to be held in Brighton in 1-3 November: "the largest annual multi-disciplinary dementia-focused event and exhibition in the UK and the best opportunity for professionals to learn from and
#CoproductionLeeds – what Twitter said
We had an amazing turnout for the Co-production conference organised by Touchstone and Leeds Involving People and - appropriately - a great sense of involvement and collaboration. Below, we've collated the responses and photos that many attendees published to Twitter during or after the event. [View the story "Co-Production Conference"
Men's Health Week: 13 to 19 June 2016 #MensHealthWeek #ShowUsYourBlue
We all get stressed. The question is: what do you do about it? It matters because if we don’t release stress, it can turn into something more serious. This year, one in four of us will develop a mental health problem. That is odds of 3 to 1; or about
Stress Control Class – Carole's Story
“…One of the most important aspects of the course was the fact that no one was ever put on the spot or made to feel uncomfortable..” Carole's story At the beginning of 2015 I had thoughts of harming myself had been regularly visiting my GP and was suffering from severe
Survey on support needs of military personnel
Forces in Mind Trust and the Local Government Association have commissioned a survey to see how well current and former military service personnel are being supported and how this can be improved. John Shivas from the Armed Forces Covenant Team at the Ministry of Defence says: "… Since the launch