Mental Health: The impact of COVID-19
Season 2, Episode 11, Nov 12, 2020, 11:44 AM
Chairing this session is Samira Ahmed, Journalist and Broadcaster, with panelists Professor Sir Simon Wessley, King’s College London regius professor of psychiatry, Angela Hillary, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, and Mark Brown, Social Spider development director.
Our fifth episode of our podcast season looking back on our virtual Annual Conference and Exhibition 2020. This discussion looked at the impact of coronavirus and the wider socio-economic consequences of the UK’s response to the pandemic on mental health and wellbeing, the likely shape of demand for mental health services in the coming months and what the sector needs to be able to meet it.