According to the Guardian newspaper research consistently points to the enormous difficulty and long waiting times for accessing talking therapy services through the NHS. And the Times reports that a number of patients with mental health problems are waiting more than three months for talking therapies such as counselling....Read more

…and the screw turns again. It was novel, scary, and – even though it shouldn’t have been – somehow a little exciting back in March. Because, unless you were a time traveller and remembered the Spanish “flu”, 1st Lockdown 2020 was out of everybody’s experience....Read more

The equivalent of the entire population of Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast, Liverpool, and Leicester will be spending Christmas on their own this year. Twice as many as usual. 30% of these souls are over the age of 65, which is particularly serious as the company of others is the principal strut keeping many older adults active....Read more

“Come in, — come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me. You have never seen the like of me before.” (Charles Dickens)...Read more

We’re saved! The Pfizer Covid jab begins its roll out next week. The Health Secretary is rumoured to have smiled, and most of us can now drink a sociable glass of the good stuff, so long as we dip a Scotch egg into it at the same time. Life stirs....Read more

Dr. Craig Knight, a Chartered and Registered Psychologist and Research Fellow at the University of Exeter is sharing his advice on how to cope with self-isolation during the pandemic. ...Read more