Despite popular belief, mental health issues don't just impact 1 in 4. Mental health distress affects 1 in 1, either directly or indirectly. We all have to consider our mental wellbeing. If we are fortunate enough never to need professional help for our mental health, nearly all of us know at least 1 person that does need support. With current world events & inequalities in the UK ever widening, you'd have to be 'mad' to be 'sane' some might argue. So having world-class mental health services will help all of us in the UK, not just a perceived 'unwell' minority. Spending money today on early intervention is much, much cheaper than dealing with the consequences of neglect tomorrow. Most people that have ever used mental health services or those that provide these services, knows the system is failing many people & has been since services began. For decades those with the power & responsibility to improve mental health services have proven unwilling or unable to make the radical changes that need to happen. People are suffering unnecessary distress. People are dying avoidable deaths. This is the epidemic within the pandemic. We are not anti-the-professional or the politicians or any of the decision makers. We are not anti-anything. We are simply pro-human. We want to avoid unnecessary suffering. Even better than just signing this petition would be to also email us with your experiences of mental health services in the UK. The good, the bad, the ugly. Having acknowledged what isn't being done, our hope is to keep this movement with a focus on what could be done. Rather than create a laundry list of resentments we hope to highlight positive potential & creative ideas for mental health services. Less about problems, more about solutions. So if you could also include ideas for how to improve mental health services that would be brilliant. The email address to use is: [email protected] A website is under construction & it is our hope to publish your emails on this site anonymously (unless you don't want us to) to help us all to fully understand the challenges and use our collective wisdom for how we might improve our mental health services across our nation. We will not stop our efforts until we genuinely actualise world-class mental health for everyone in the UK. Please forward this petition to as many friends & family & colleagues as you can. Via email & all your social media accounts. We understand that most of us are 'time-poor' but spending just a few minutes forwarding this petition has the potential to start a mental health revolution in the UK. Please sign this petition now & join this movement to stop the epidemic within the pandemic. It is time for change. It is time for action. Please show your support now.

To keep Belper and surrounding areas safe.

I feel this is hugely important and could save many lives just as the Christian Eriksen incident of 2021 Euros has proven.

Most spectacle users knows that they can ask their opticians for a copy of their prescription enabling them to buy their glasses anywhere, another opticians or a much cheaper online company. Well, I say this, but it is only if you have single vision lenses. Did you know that if you have varifocals, you are able to take your prescription to any high street opticians but you can't make use of online services as a key measurement is missed off of the prescription! This means when you go to another opticians, this measurement will be taken so that the correct glasses are ordered. Obviously, online companies cannot take this measurement and if you tried to do it yourself at home, it might not be completely accurate. So, this means, that varifocal users are being unfairly financially penalised and discriminated against as they can't take advantage of much cheaper online options.

As amazing as it is the NHS already give us one chance, I feel This is important because so many people now seem to have some trouble with conceiving as many more women have got infertility problems. This can be such things as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Endometriosis, which effect 1/10 women. Having 1 lot of IVF puts a lot of strain on a woman and not only the whole lm time worrying about being pregnant but a women’s stress levels double which also can cause women to miscarry or not conceive that time. I feel if women knew they have 2 chances it would take a lot of strain off us women. It costs couples thousands of pounds to go through IVF each and every time and not only if the 1st one fails it then makes it difficult for a couple to keep going through it day to day, thinking they might not ever have them, working so hard to get the money for a second try. I have seen people not have any children because it’s wore at their relationship. I know this isnt cost effective but I know it would help with so many relationships and hope to be families. I never realised how many people struggle daily with not being able to have a family.

During the pandemic many sports activities have been affected, yet swimming is not just a sport, it is a life skill. Many private leisure clubs have been afforded the privilege to offer swimming lessons to children throughout the pandemic, but local council run leisure centres have not. Children have missed out on learning how to swim and how to be safe in and around water. We must place pressure on our local government to allow our children to return to the water so that they can remain safe!!!

There was a once an ambulance station located in Reynoldston Gower which responded to 999 calls. This has long gone, and this has left the people of Gower without any ambulance cover. The delays cost lives and the residents DESERVE a safer service. Speaking from personal experience earlier this year, my father suffered with a massive heart attack, we called the emergency services numerous times (over an hour time period) for assistance and on our last call to them we were told by the operator that there was no ambulance coming for him at the moment and if at all possible, to find someone with a car who could take him to hospital ourselves. We managed to get hold of a family member who lives in the city centre of Swansea, and they came to Pennard to assist with transferring my dad from the house to the car in order to take him to hospital. As you can appreciate, his heart attack was so big that if we hadn't of taken this action or, if none of us had a car, or didn't drive, then he could have died. We were so very lucky on this occasion and the service we received in hospital was second to none (Thank you!), but we don't want this to happen to any of our neighbours or families, or friends, just because of where they happen to live at a time where they are at their most vulnerable and in need of emergency/medical, specialist assistance. Please bring back an ambulance to this area, it would be an excellent use of resources.

Unless each of us opts out by 23 June 2021, our individual medical records from the time we were born or first registered with a GP practice, are to be extracted by NHS Digital (at the Government's behest) from 1 July 2021. This will include data about your symptoms, diagnoses and physical, and mental health - your private and confidential health data. These data will then be used for planning and possibly for research purposes and potentially sold for financial profit. This includes the summary of conversations you have had with your GP in the understanding that you were speaking in complete privacy. These data should be protected, not shared. I ask you to support the urgent cessation of this data extraction.

My husband had a Gastric Bypass a few years ago ,but when he was due to have the excess skin removed after loosing weight he was unable to have it done on the NHS as Apronectomy is now classed as cosmetic & became a cut back. He has COPD that is made worse with carrying the weight of the excess skin , has painful neck & shoulders ,walks with a crutch because he feels he could fall , also gets leg ulcers & could get them under the skin , he has a heart problem ,we can't have intimacy in our marriage . Because he gets breathless ,we can't go on nice walks together . Which makes me sad when I see couples out walking , and I walk with a group instead or on my own. How can the Government say this operation to remove excess stomach skin is cosmetic ,when it's medical & important for the health & wellbeing of the person concerned.

Following the recent serious claims made by Dominic Cummings, it is essential to investigate what lessons can be learnt from the Government's handling during the pandemic. This should be via a fast-tracked public enquiry with evidence given under oath and the findings published before the next General Election.

we need more clinician space

Indian health facilities are overwhelmed by COVID and their government is relying on a vaccination programme to get on top of the pandemic but their vaccination stocks are very low. The UK on the other hand has already vaccinated over 50% of its adult population, has plenty of vaccines and many more on order. It would be grossly unfair to the Indian people to insist on vaccines manufactured there being exported to the UK when their need is so much greater than ours.