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In the UK, one man in five dies before he reaches 65. Together, we can change that.
Men's Health Week
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National online survey on healthcare services following self-harm
The University of Manchester are conducting an NIHR funded national online patient and carer survey on health services following self-harm
They are keen to invite as many men to participate in order to understand the personal experiences behind the statistics as they are underrepresented in mental healthcare studies for self-harm.
At the moment, there are large differences across hospitals in the quality of care for people who attend with self-harm. Around 60% of people do not access any mental health or psychological services. Many people who do attend the emergency department do not receive an assessment and we know little of peoples’ experiences when trying to access psychological therapies.
If you want to know more, the link to the survey website is here. https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/mhapt/. It provides an overview of the study, including the study documents, and links to the survey.
The survey takes around ten minutes to complete but may take longer if you want to share more of your experiences. The findings from this study will help to increase access to mental health assessments and psychological therapies following self-harm.
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The Men’s Health Forum need your support It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking. In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to. It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for. We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing. Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.
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