Consultations responses


Rethink responds to major public consultations to ensure that the voices of service users and carers are heard and incorporated into policy.

Our responses are grouped by subject, as below.

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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