Current Campaigns

So what are we campaigning to change?

Welfare Reform 2011

The Department for Work and Pensions published a White Paper, 'Universal Credit: welfare that works', that sets out Government plans to simplify benefits. Find out what is changing. 

Breaking Down the Wall
We are campaigning to break down the wall of stigma and discrimination faced by people affected by severe mental illness, brick by brick.

Opening Doors
We are campaigning to open to the doors to mental health services, and to ensure they are good quality. It is essential that treatments and services are available, accessible and delivered to high standards.

We Care, We Count
Rethink want carers to be valued, listened to and supported. This campaign works towards these goals, and began with work on the Carers' Strategy.

Moving People
9 out of 10 people with mental illness can't do things like going to the pub, out to the shops or have normal relationships with family and friends because of the stigma and discrimination they face. We are about to move a large step closer to changing this.

Rethink Politics - the project
The Electoral Commission is funding Rethink to carry out a large scale project about the involvement of service users and carers in the democratic process. This will be carried out in both England and Northern Ireland. The project started in January 2007 and will continue to the end of December 2009.

Cannabis and mental illness
Cannabis has serious mental health risks. Find out what Rethink wants to change and what steps the Government should take to address the mental health risks linked to cannabis use.

CAMPAIGN WITH US
We can't do it alone - whatever time you've got to spare, you can make a difference! Find out how here.

Press Releases

New GP-led commissioners failing to listen to mental health patients, according to new report

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) must do more to involve people with mental illness and their families when making spending decisions, according to a new report published today by the charity Rethink Mental Illness.

Rethink Mental Illness: Hyundai suicide car ad ‘breathtakingly insensitive’ says mental health charity

“This film is breathtakingly insensitive. I’m appalled that anyone could even come up with such as crass idea for an advert..." Read Rethink Mental Illness's comment on the Hyundai car advert.

NHS must do more to help people with mental illness to stop smoking, says charity

Paul Jenkins, CEO of Rethink Mental Illness, has called on the NHS to do more to help people with mental illness stop smoking, as a new report reveals that health professionals are failing to support smokers with mental illness to quit.

NHS must do more to help people with mental illness to stop smoking, says Rethink

Paul Jenkins, CEO of Rethink Mental Illness, has called on the NHS to do more to help people with mental illness stop smoking, as a new report reveals that health professionals are failing to support smokers with mental illness to quit.

Rethink Mental Illness: ‘I rescued her and she rescued me’ - the dogs, cats and ducks supporting mental health

After asking their supporters to tell them about the pets that have helped their mental health, the charity Rethink Mental Illness has been inundated with tales of the most supportive cats, dogs, ducks and even guinea pigs in the UK.

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