Mental health
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“Parks aren’t there for making money”
Bristol City Council approves recommendations for savings from its parks and green spaces, allowing ‘low impact’ advertising and charging professional dog walkers.
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Banner Home Page Features Edition 15
Dependent drinkers in Bristol are trialing MDMA therapy
The UK’s first ever clinical study using MDMA has started in Bristol, in a landmark moment for the use of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy.
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Edition 15 Banner Home Page Investigations Series: Working In The NHS
Revealed: NHS staff in Bristol are being worked until they’re sick with stress
In the 70th year of the NHS, an investigation by the Cable reveals that those who care for the nation are in need of serious attention.
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Bristol: Highest number of mental health patient preventable deaths
Highly vulnerable patients have died after NHS failings. Why?
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Mental health: weighing up the options
As social factors play a role in mental illhealth, why is it so often treated with medication alone?
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Transforming mental health provision in schools?
Therapists and educators criticise the government’s proposed changes to how mental health services are delivered.
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Do you want advertising in your parks?
Anti-advertising campaigners warn that introducing advertising into Bristol’s green spaces could detract from the wellbeing they provide.
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Becky Romero’s family: “Our children deserve better than this”
Family of teenager failed by Bristol’s mental health service demand more funding for the sector.
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Watch: Mandem don’t cry. Right?
A Bristol based platform offers a unique space for young men of colour. MANDEM is a Bristol based independent online platform for men of colour, spawned through conversations on the lack of diversity in the media.
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OCD: fighting a battle inside my head
Nearly 70 overdoses and a stomach full of charcoal: one young woman shares her 18-month experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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We need a public good when times are bad
Communities and public services are suffering, the political landscape is in tumult and you can’t go five minutes without hearing somebody shout ‘fake news’.
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Jury finds a series of failings at Bristol prison caused the death of father-to-be
Callum Smith repeatedly self-harmed and threatened to kill himself but was not put on a suicide prevention plan. A report by law firm Irwin Mitchell.
