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The NHS is making headlines on a near daily basis, with the system under enormous pressure to provide services, to an increasingly large population, with less relative funding, and staff shortages within several professional groups. The implications of this are longer waiting times and a drive for most efficient—which could be interpreted as meaning brief—interventions. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are no exception to...

July is here and we are storming toward the summer holidays and the end of another academic year! In schools, the stress of exams and threat of Ofsted inspections is fading, and the energy of sports days, end-of-year productions and leaving assemblies hangs in the air. Endings, holidays and transitions are looming for pupils, with the mixture of sadness, excitement and nerves that this inevitably...

Hi everyone!  How are you doing? For me, early 2016 has been a time of challenge, transition and growth. While Creating Healthy Minds remains reassuringly consistent and stable, this has been in contrast with we've seen happen in much of public health care as the UK government continues to seek new ways to transform and improve services. Whilst the long term goals might be admirable, the short term experience...