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Art Works in Mental Health: A project aimed at promoting the art of everyone affected by mental ill health, including their carers. The project is run by a collaborative board; some work with people who suffer from mental illness, whilst others are experienced in creating art and using artistic expression as a positive outlet.

Association for Pastoral Care in Mental Health APCMH is primarily concerned with the spiritual needs of people with mental health problems. It hopes to encourage local initiatives in faith communities in order to support and empower mental health service users. Several befriending schemes and drop-in centres have been set up by APCMH members and the experience gained from them can be shared.

British Medical Journal Key journal for research papers, articles, opinion and discussion.

Confer An independent organisation providing continuing education in the form of courses and lectures. They focus on the cutting-edge of research and theoretical thinking on psychotherapy, medicine and culture.

Counselling in Primary Care Trust Dedicated to Primary Care Counselling in the UK. Promoting, supporting and developing counselling, psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills in primary care

Counsellors & Psychotherapists in Primary Care CPC is a self-regulating membership association; the names of individual members who reach the required standards for membership criteria are entered on a Register of Members. The aims of the Association are to represent counsellors and psychotherapists working in an NHS setting and to lead the way in establishing national standards and guidelines for further development of professional and effective counselling throughout the NHS.

Depression Alliance The largest self-help organisation for people with depression and their carers in the UK, DA is committed to developing services for its members and service users, as well as lobbying and campaigning for a positive attitude towards people with this severe and enduring mental illness.

Doctors Support Line The SupportLine is staffed by volunteer doctors to provide peer support for doctors in the UK.It is an independent, confidential and anonymous service.

Flexible Doctors Provides support to those doctors in, or considering, part-time work, encouraging them to air their concerns freely and allowing them to feel supported

General Practitioners Union Building the new Trade Union for UK General Practitioners Promoting the interests and welfare of all GPs

Gingerich A site for those that want to look at solution-focussed therapy interventions.

Guardian Big Issues section Has comprehensive sections on various issues, including mental health but covering other very pertinent overlaps.

Hoolet The online version of the magazine for GPs in Scotland from the RCGP Scotland. hoolet is one of the added extras membership of the College brings to brighten up your day and hoolet web extra is the icing on the cake.

International Initiative For Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) It Facilitates the sharing of best practices and provides the needed support and collaboration for leaders of mental health services to develop robust managerial and operational practices.

Just For Nurses The title explains this one! Features help and resources

LAMPDirect A community mental health site - part of a local response to the standards set out in the National Service Framework. LAMPdirect aims to provide news about mental health issues and to offer a broad range of information about services, activities, and support available within Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland

LoMHR&D VIRTUAL INSTITUTE - London Mental Health Research & Development: Virtual Institute Established in 2000 to facilitate collaborative high quality mental health research and development in London

MadNOTBad MadNOTBad is a space for those affected by mental ill health/distress to share their own insights and creativity online. Service users, family and friends can feel isolated and unheard - 'm hoping that this site will go some way to combat this. I would also like to think that it will help to reduce the stigma and miscinceptions surrounding the subject by 'telling it like it is'. The message is 'being mad don't make you bad' and that it's ok to talk about it.

Medicines Partnership "From Compliance to Concordance" Medicines partnership is a two-year initiative supported by the Department of Health, aimed at putting the principles of concordance into practice

Mental Health Foundation A mine of helpful resources, advice and information from this foundation, which also focusses on help those with learning disabilities.

Music Workshop Project This project is a scheme in Kidderminster (England) which aims to help people with mental health problems by involving them in various music-based activities.

NeLH-PC (National electronic Library for Health - Primary Care) The NeLH-PC site is designed to provide all those in primary care access to key knowledge and know-how.

NIMHE - (National Institute for Mental Health in England) NIMHE aims to improve the quality of life for people of all ages who experience mental distress. Working beyond the NHS it helps all those involved in mental health to implement change, providing a gateway to learning and development. NIMHE is part of the Modernisation Agency at the Department of Health.

Psyclick This site is a resource for anyone seeking to train as a clinical psychologist, particularly in the UK

Primary Care Mental Health Network A multidisciplinary group of health service, social service, voluntary sector workers, consumers and carers, representing 61 PCGs and 13 health communities across the Region who share a vision of integrated and community-based approach to family-centred and holistic care.

Primary Care Report The web site for decision-makers in UK local health services. The aim of the site is to provide up-to-the-minute news, views and resources to support the development of primary care groups, trusts and their equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Royal College of Psychiatrists Primhe has an excellent working relationship with the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

RCPsych "Changing Minds" Campaign During the five years of this campaign and programme, the RCPsych produced a substantial Tool Kit of materials has been developed, to help change minds and reduce stigma. The materials are available on this website . A second website has been created by the Campaign at www.stigma.org/everyfamily. This provides in-depth articles about stigma by researchers, academics, mental health service users and carers. Following the official close of the Changing Minds Campaign on 7th October 2003, the College will continue to develop the campaign website and distribute its publications and is very aware that tackling the stigma of mental illness is an enduring task.

Royal Society of Medicine Primhe held its two most important strategic development meetigs here in 1999 and the RSM is an excellent location for those coming to stay or meet in London. It also hosts a wide variety of stimulating meetings and produces educational and informative publications.

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health An independent charity that seeks to influence mental health policy and practice and enable the development of excellent mental health services through a co-ordinated programme of research, training and development.

Stress-confidence.com This website is for anyone who suffers from the effects of stress or who feels that they are lacking in confidence in some aspect of their life. If you are experiencing problems in your personal life or at work, or if you think that you could achieve more if you had advice, help and encouragement, then this website is for you.

Stress Education Services Provide training courses on Stress Related Training, Specialist Courses for Nurses, Distance Learning Opportunities, Stress Adviser Courses, Confidence building courses for all Consultation skills for nurses

Virtuall Now a charity combining 'e' based learning and practical development programmes with the aim of achieving better mental health for London.

Wales Mental Health in Primary Care (Wa MH in PC) The site is designed to provide interested parties a platform in which to share information and generate innovation within Wales through an interactive forum.

West End Health Resource Centre The Health Resource Centre was developed through a long process of finding out what people in communities understood by health and their health needs, what professionals in health and social care understood as improving the health of people in the communities they served, and how key managers and decision-makers could provide support for encouraging different ways of working which would address health inequalities.

WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care This web site is a resource that can be used in a number of ways. It can be used by an individual practitioner in the care of his or her patients; it can also be used by a primary care team or a primary care organization (or local health group) to review, jointly with mental health teams, the service they provide, identifying gaps and training needs or developing locally appropriate, shared criteria for referral to specialist services. It is hoped that this web site improves communication and collaboration between all who have a stake in the provision of good primary mental healthcare

Depression-WebWorld Dedicated to improving the understanding and treatment of depression The site now consists of nearly 300 pages in both English and in Japanese. This site map has been constructed to help you explore the site and its contents. Place your mouse over the different titles for further details of their contents and direct links to each section.

Anxiety Disorders Conference 2005

Maytree a sanctuary for the suicidal The inspiration and energy behind Maytree came from the Director, Paddy Bazeley who had been working full time with the Samaritans for nearly 30 years. During this time Paddy met many people with feelings such as “I don’t really want to die but I don’t know how to live,” or who believed for example they would rather take their own lives than go to hospital. The stigma of a mental illness label and the fear of being detained in hospital involuntarily (sectioned) deters a great many people from seeking help. Paddy first suggested the idea of a non-medical respite centre for people actively thinking about suicide to colleagues and friends.