WIll Young Health Will Young to talk about Mental Health at National Student Pride Recently, singer Will Young made waves by speaking freely and openly about mental health, anxiety and low self-esteem to Channel 4 News. His words will have resonated with many young LGBT people. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Health Homeless hotels from hell – Daniel’s story! After three years, Brighton and Hove Council have overturned their earlier decision not to home Daniel Harris and accepted they have a care of duty to him and he is in priority need. By Besi • 3 min read
General News Council pledges its ‘Time to Change’ Brighton and Hove City Council to support Time to Change, England’s biggest campaign to end stigma and discrimination faced by people with mental health problems. By Gary Hart • 1 min read
Health New advocacy service for trans communities MindOut, the LGBT mental health project and Healthwatch Brighton and Hove are to jointly set up the city’s first Trans Advocacy Service. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Health New online GP Guide for supporting trans patients Local NHS Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) launches the country’s first online guide for supporting trans patients in GP surgeries. The guide’s publication follows a recent Parliamentary inquiry into Transgender Equality in the UK, which published a report earlier this month clai By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Health Home Office Minister visits west London clinic to find out more about ‘legal highs’ Home Office minister Karen Bradley paid a visit to the Earls Court based Club Drug Clinic on Tuesday, January 26 ahead of today’s Psychoactive Substances Bill gaining Royal Assent and becoming law. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Health National Student Pride to highlight mental health One in four of LGBT people will face mental health issues in their lives, but the statistics are worryingly more acute for students. A recent study by the National Union of Students produced for parliament showed 4 in 5 students faced mental health issues in the last year. By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Features & Longread Crispin Blunt’s poppers speech: a brave acknowledgment of awkward truths Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate, Surrey, offered the British media a late Christmas present when he admitted to being a user of the drug amyl nitrite, more commonly known as “poppers”, during a House of Commons debate on the Psychoactive Substances Bill, which would see them banned. By Sharif Mowlabocus • 3 min read
Health Popular Sexual Health Services Clinical Director retires Tributes have been paid to the Clinical Director of Central North West London’s (CNWL) Sexual Health Services, Dr Danielle Mercey, who is leaving the NHS after more than 30 years as a doctor. By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Health Pressure mounts to offer PrEP on NHS Central North West London (CNWL), NHS Foundation Trust add their voice to calls for once-a-day drug to prevent HIV infection be offered on the NHS. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Health Report provides further evidence of PrEP effectiveness Results of new modelling research published in The Lancet HIV journal show that offering PrEP with regular HIV testing, and early treatment to just a quarter of Men who have sex with men (MSM) at high risk of contracting HIV could prevent around 7,400 new HIV infections (44 per cent of total inciden By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts Local author to take new ‘HIV Happy’ workshop on tour Paul Thorn, author and presenter of Radio Reverb’s HIV Happy Hour to tour new workshop around the UK. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
