New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, supported by the Population Mental Health Consortium and ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, has found that social exclusion in South London is a potentially contributing factor in premature death in people with severe mental illness, and may be evident in people as young as 15 years old.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 15 Dec 2025
The recent pandemic revealed a close link between feeling lonely and increased substance use which, in turn, can damage relationships and create a cycle of loneliness. In this blog Jonathan Crabtree, Post Graduate researcher at the IoPPN and the NIHR Maudsley BRC CEDI lead, Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa, a Senior Lecturer at the IoPPN and a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, explore the link between loneliness and substance use disorders using real-world clinical data.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Aug 2025
Earlier this year under the Conservative government a Green paper opened up a consultation on the future of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - a welfare benefit claimed by many people with mental health and neurodivergent conditions as well as people with physical health conditions. Researchers from King’s College London investigated how this benefit is received by people who are accessing mental health services and, together with members of a patient and public involvement and engagement group who advise on the project, have written a blog to explain their latest findings.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 26 Sep 2024
Researchers at King's College London, supported by the NIHR Maudsley BRC, are the first research team in England to link electronic mental healthcare records to census data, at an individual level. Published in the ‘BMJ Open’ and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the study involved linking de-identified data (with personal information removed) of 459,374 patients from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to census data from 2011.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 5 Feb 2024
New National Institute for Health and Care Research Maudsley BRC supported research has found HIV is 2.5 times more frequent in people who use mental health services than the general population in South London.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 26 Apr 2023
