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NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental Health marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week with a look at how messages are getting across:

While the nation has been swept up in the drama of the election, backstage the NHS has continued with business as usual.

And so this week’s Mental Health Awareness Week#MHAW15 is a chance for us to reflect on how the growing awareness about mental health has reached the hearts and minds of millions and is influencing decision makers in many sectors of our society.

In the past year, the appetite for information about mental health has reached unprecedented levels.

Every day, across the country and indeed the world, there are newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV programmes, thought pieces, new facts and figures, and live narrative stories.

The thoughtful and compassionate nature of this very welcome media attention is a far cry from the past, where stories based on ignorance, fear,