Scorching bank holiday: Heatwave alerts across England As the UK swelters through a bank holiday weekend that could break the all-time May temperature record, health experts are urging people to…
Author: Oliver Marsh
Oliver Marsh
Mental Health & Lifestyle Correspondent
Oliver Marsh reports on mental health and wellness for Health News Daily. He covers NHS mental health services, workplace wellbeing, children's mental health, anxiety, depression and modern approaches to healthy living. A certified Mental Health First Aider, Oliver is passionate about breaking the stigma around mental health and making evidence-based wellbeing advice accessible to all. His reporting bridges the gap between clinical mental health news and practical lifestyle guidance for UK readers.
· Certified Mental Health First Aider (MHFA England), peer support volunteer, lived experience of NHS Talking Therapies pathway
· ADHD and autism in adults, anxiety and depression, CAMHS and children's mental health, workplace burnout, sleep science, nutrition and ultra-processed foods, NHS mental health service access
The average UK adult spends roughly seven and a half hours a day staring at a screen – a figure that may well be an undercount, particularly for those whose…
Hannah Murray was not being sectioned. She was, in her own mind, the saviour of the planet. The formal words – “Section 2 … the Mental Health Act … 28…
Life and longevity are not matters that can be reduced to a simple instruction manual, however well-intentioned. A report from the Oxford Longevity Project, co-authored by Sir Christopher Ball, argues…
Britain faces its first heatwave of the year before summer officially begins, with temperatures set to climb as high as 33°C in parts of southern England and the Midlands on…
Survivors of a horrific attack on a children’s holiday club have reunited for the first time, nearly two years after a teenage assailant turned a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop into…
Many runners are performing ‘snot rockets’ in public spaces, turning parks and pavements into an impromptu mucus minefield this spring. The technique – blocking one nostril with a finger and…
The fibre deficit: why most Britons are falling short More than nine in ten people in the UK are not consuming enough fibre, according to government-backed dietary surveys, despite mounting…
Britain’s birth rate has hit a record low of 1.41 children per woman, according to a major new report that warns the country’s housing market is driving a “looming disaster”…
Half a million children and teenagers have been taken to emergency departments across England suffering mental health crises since 2019, according to new figures released by the Royal College of…