Posts TaggedMental Health

Raising the game, mental health and our sporting heroes

The 2020 Olympics has been a triumph against the odds for the hosts, and for Team GB, but this event more than any also bought to the fore the mental health challenges the sporting elite face. Simone Biles supreme talent and unprecedented career success further crowned by her successfully beaming over Piers Morgan’s bile. No early adopter here, these recent testimonies made me finally sit…

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Are we facing a tsunami of mental health problems?

BBC’s Newsnight and Bedfordshire police have this week highlighted a study that points to a tsunami of mental health conditions and struggles, a fairly predictable outcome following the circumstances of the last 12 months. Is this setting the scene for a mental health crisis, as the annual statistics are still set to be published by the ONS, NHS, HMIC to name a few? The headline…

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The home strait to spring, and a future of flexible working. How do we re-invest in our people?

As we look forward to spring, the relaxation of rules and return of some freedoms, there is a sense we’re on the home strait towards the lives we knew. Many aspects will surely return with time (and vaccines), but some are inevitably changed for good. The pros and cons of flexible working will still be debated, but there is a financial reality that many businesses…

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