New leader for Rethink

Mental Health Nursing,  Nov 2006  

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Paul Jenkins (pictured) is to be the next chief executive of Rethink. Currently director of service development at NHS Direct, Paul will take up the post on 1 January 2007. Me said he had four aims:

* Ensuring government support for mental health as a key priority for investment and modernisation

* Intensifying Rethink's campaign to raise awareness around mental health and combat discrimination

* Growing Rethink's membership

* securing the charity's future in a difficult and volatile market.

He said: 'Mental health stands at a crossroads. Behind us is a history of crisis and compulsion; long years when millions of people experienced the worst of mental healthcare locked away, forgotten, abused. In front of us is a future that is now realisable - where people with mental health problems, however severe, can have real hope of recovering a full and meaningful life.'

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