The White Paper on Reforming The Mental Health Act is now out. It’s good that much of what we recommended in the Independent Review is there. But there are still lots of outstanding questions. The consultation is now open - please make your voice heard.
Simon Wessely
@WesselyS
Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King's College London; Dir King’s Centre Military Health Research; FRS; Past President RCPsych & RSM. Chelsea season ticket
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Good to hear choosing Paul Robeson singing The Ballad of Joe Hill on #desertislanddiscs just now. Takes me back to my childhood.
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Just finished my first (and hopefully not the last!) #CIMVHRForum! A thoroughly enjoyable, and welcoming conference. The talk showed some preliminary findings from the interviews with spouses and adult children of veterans.
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Do come. I have been reading China Diaries and much else on your behalf and look forward to much wisdom and plenty of waspish asides Should be fun!
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In Conversation Live with Chris Patten, The Rt Hon. the Lord Patten of Barnes, Wednesday 26 October.
Join us in person as RSM Immediate Past President @WesselyS speaks with the former Governor of Hong Kong and MP of Bath, now Chancellor of @UniofOxford.
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In Conversation Live with Chris Patten, The Rt Hon. the Lord Patten of Barnes, Wednesday 26 October.
Join us in person as RSM Immediate Past President speaks with the former Governor of Hong Kong and MP of Bath, now Chancellor of .
rsm.ac/3e4FSNq
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Tune into the next episode of the RSM #COVID-19 series where Professor will discuss the fourth wave of COVID-19 alongside Dame Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of .
Join our free webinar on Wednesday 26 October 👉 rsm.ac/3enX5kS
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Mental health stigma is “worse than the condition itself”.
✍️ Commission by has called for global action to end stigma and discrimination against people with mental health conditions.
#WorldMentalHealthDay2022 👇
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It's a wet day in Georgia, an amazing and welcoming country, with a fascinating, complex and sometimes tragic history. This is the view from my window. The house is not visible at street level, surrounded by a high wall. So who lived there? Give you a clue, no, it wasn't Stalin.
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I went through passports at Tbilisi, Georgia yesterday in similar fashion on way to . But also after stamping passport they also give you a small bottle of Georgian wine. Now that’s a proper welcome.
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For connoisseurs of the madness that has been Schipol airport, just got through security in 5 minutes and passports in 10 at peak time. #finallysorted?
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From pandemic to war, we have all experienced a time for serious concern.
Tbilisi is hosting . This is a good opportunity to have serious conversations.
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The Right Hon , AC was recently our guest on RSM In Conversation Live.
Now Chair of and , she reflected on one decade since her famous "Not now, not ever" speech during her conversation with at the RSM 👇
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The pandemic kept us apart, but psychiatrists & students it is time to come back together with samosas, socialising & learning face to face with talking to us about history taking, denial & David Irving. Nineteen have already booked
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How does depression differ from low mood? 🤔
Professor Sir Simon Wessely ( ) explains what living with depression can feel like, what symptoms to look out for & what help is available, as part of our new #MindoftheMatter series ⬇
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It was a privilege to be present at the party to mark stepping down after 16 amazing years at . And as part of his return to normal life even better to take him to watch a victory today
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We are proud to have organised, promoted and hosted today's important conference on abortion care. We have used the term ‘abortion’ across all our promotional activities, in the title of the event and during the event itself. We are investigating the claims made today.
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Our new report presents The Military Service Identification Tool - an innovation which allowed us to identify, and then compare, veterans with civilians in a secondary mental health service
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This year the FIMT RC conference will coincide with the Veterans mental health conference. Tickets are now on sale bit.ly/3LByOUL for both days (7th & 8th March) with a small discount for attending both. Note: both events usually sell out. Hope to see you there.
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Tickets for the 2023 @kcmhr veterans mental health conference, sponsored by @FiMTrust, are now on sale. It is on 7th March. Also, the @FiMT_RC conference will be on 8th March (small discount for attending both events). Note: we usually sell out early! bit.ly/3LByOUL
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#HTLGI22 immortalised with illustrations! A huge thank you to Brian Davis for capturing these for us yesterday - how many of these debates do you recognise? 🖊
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Introducing kicking off the first talk of the introduction to mental health, one of most popular MSc courses. He promises 400 million years of history in 75 minutes, starting with the ancient and deep. I take that as a compliment. Good luck Derek
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Our paper on post traumatic growth (PTG) in UK military personnel deployed to the Middle East is now out. Results suggest that whilst mild to moderate #PTSD symptoms can be associated with PTG; this is not true for more severe symptoms. bit.ly/3SwGtpL
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ADVANCE-INVEST study explores military-to-civilian transition of #ArmedForces with battlefield injuries and shows that existing research is sparse but suggests that veterans generally do well, except those with major amputations and complex needs.
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We're delighted to announce Sir Simon Wessely, Prof Stephani Hatch & Prof Neil Greenberg as chairpeople for our #NHSCHECK event
👉The impact of COVID on the mental health of NHS staff: Impact, Inequality and Moral Injury
early bird tickets available £79
nhscheck.org/events/
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Tickets for the 2023 veterans mental health conference, sponsored by , are now on sale. It is on 7th March. Also, the conference will be on 8th March (small discount for attending both events). Note: we usually sell out early! bit.ly/3LByOUL
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Now Welcome Week has come to an end, we checked in with 2 important people who are always working hard to keep running….
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Long post I'm afraid but I wanted to explore the question of potential Russian nuclear use carefully rather than simply asert or dismiss it as a possibility.
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This is very sad. Barbara Winton was a lovely person who seemed always to bring joy to a room. She also carried on supporting the same causes and values as her father, without whom a lot of us wouldn’t be here
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Barbara Winton visited the Czech Republic several times and wrote a book, which was translated into Czech, describing her father's life story. expats.cz/czech-news/art via @expatscz
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Tomorrow (Wed 21 Sep) afternoon, will be giving a talk on Psychiatry and War at the International Conference.
Here he is speaking to & on the #IoMHconf2022 podcast
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It was a pleasure to chat with about his upcoming talk! Some very insightful ideas here, do give it a listen
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Tomorrow (Wed 21 Sep) afternoon, @WesselyS will be giving a talk on Psychiatry and War at the @UCLMentalHealth International Conference.
Here he is speaking to @JennyFielder & @AgathaAnet on the #IoMHconf2022 podcast
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“Mum, did you record my big moment?”
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Dankeschön. 🙏
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Von mir aus kann jeden Tag Staatsbegräbnis sein, wenn dafür im Livestream @annettedittert spricht. Eine solch formidable Korrespondentin - klug, kritisch, kenntnisreich, empathisch und mit hintergründigem Humor.
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Salary: £34,502 - £39,333 (pro rata) per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closes: 29-Sep-2022
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Dame Valerie Beral DBE FMedSci FRS, photographed by Anne-Katrin Purkiss at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit , for the ‘Scientists 2010-2021' exhibit. #InternationalWomensDay artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/fellow
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Happy to share this recent piece - it's about why we should be imagining a future without divided health, and what needs to change to get there from here... thanks
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Just lovely. Twitter can be lovely
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This was so moving. Spontaneously stopped off at the London Bridge station organ to play a couple of pieces for the Queen. This lovely security guard, Marcella, asked if I could play Lascia ch'io pianga. Turns out she trained as a singer! 

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Even I would have a cat that did this.
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Psychiatry is clearly becoming more and more attractive as a career (though I wish the competition ratio remained flat and workforce increased).
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That’s ridiculous. #CFC
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Chelsea have sacked Thomas Tuchel. He was informed this morning. The decision is not only down to mixed results or a reaction to the poor Dinamo loss alone. It’s part of a wider summer of strategic change, too.
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