Suicide Prevention Funding: 1 Report Stormont Can’t Ignore
Suicide prevention funding: why a new Stormont report says it can’t be health’s job alone Suicide prevention funding in Northern Ireland has to be shared across government, not left to the health system alone, that is the central message of a report launched at Stormont this week. On Tuesday 23 September 2026, the All-Party Group […]
National Suicide Memorial Day 2026 | Doctors in Distress UK
National Suicide Memorial Day 2026: Why Northern Ireland’s Doctors and Nurses Are Still Waiting for Help Today, Thursday 17 September 2026, is National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers, a day set up by NHS Practitioner Health and Doctors in Distress to remember the health and care professionals lost to suicide, and to […]
World Suicide Prevention Day: 290 Reasons NI Must Act Now
World Suicide Prevention Day falls on Thursday 10 September this year, and Northern Ireland arrives at it carrying a number that should stop every one of us in our tracks: 290. ▶ START THE CONVERSATION. ★ LIGHT A CANDLE TONIGHT AT 8PM, a sign to remember all those who have taken their lives by suicide. That […]
Children’s Mental Health Crisis: NI’s Missing A&E Data
Children’s Mental Health Crisis: What Northern Ireland’s Own A&E Data Shows, and Doesn’t By JustMental | Friday 4 September 2026 A children’s mental health crisis is playing out in emergency departments across England, and Northern Ireland’s own partial data suggests it isn’t confined to one side of the Irish Sea. The difference
Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse: RCPsych Apologises, Now What?
This week, the Royal College of Psychiatrists apologised, directly and publicly, to adult survivors of non-recent child sexual abuse, for decades of NHS mental health care that too often did more harm than good. Professional bodies rarely do this. In a new position statement, PS04/26, published on 26 August, the College has acknowledged that mental […]
Northern Ireland Mental Health Waiting Times: The Department of Health Just Told Us It Isn’t Publishing Them, and Then Missed Its Own Promise to Start
Why we filed the FOI On Tuesday 30 June 2026, JustMental launched the 107 a Day campaign, calling for the establishment of a 24/7 Mental Health Crisis Response Team in each of Northern Ireland’s five Health and Social Care Trust areas. The campaign was built around figures placed on the public record by Assistant Chief […]
Northern Ireland Mental Health Strategy ‘Will Never Be Delivered’
Northern Ireland’s Mental Health Champion Says the Strategy Will Never Be Fully Delivered The Northern Ireland Mental Health Strategy will never be delivered in full, according to the woman appointed to champion it. Professor Siobhán O’Neill, Mental Health Champion for Northern Ireland since 2020, told JustMentalTalk host Karl Bennett that six years after
Meta Child Safety Settlement: $17 Billion Changes Big Tech
Meta child safety settlement: $17 billion, and the design changes it forces The Meta child safety settlement announced this week is the biggest of its kind in history, and, unusually for these stories, the money may be the least important part of it. On Wednesday 26 August 2026, Meta agreed to a proposed settlement of […]
Robbie Butler Health Minister: What Changes Now?
Robbie Butler Confirmed as Northern Ireland’s Health Minister: What It Means for Mental Health Robbie Butler MLA has been confirmed as Northern Ireland’s new Health Minister, a week after Mike Nesbitt resigned from the role. Robbie Butler Health Minister appointments don’t happen often mid-mandate, and this one arrived fast: Nesbitt quit on Tuesday 1