
Simon Wessely
@wesselys
Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King's College London; Dir King’s Centre Military Health Research; FRS; Past President RCPsych & RSM. Chelsea season ticket
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Rory Stewart, "We're in an unbelievable hole.. 9.2 million economically inactive people.. That's 1 in 7 aged under 65 who aren't children" "We're complete European outliers.. The rest of Europe sorted itself after covid, we didn't" "Nobody has a clue of why it's happening, it's






🎉 We are delighted to celebrate the news that our Vice President (Research & Innovation), Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi (Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi CBE FREng FRS) has been knighted in His Majesty’s New Year Honours for services to engineering and education. Read more ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/vice-pres…

Great day for the Academic Department of Defence Mental Health. Only 3 members and two recognised in #NewYearHonours. Congrats to Prof Nicola Fear and Major Amos Simms following in footsteps of Lt Col Norman Jones. What a team! . King's Centre for Military Health Research British Army 🇬🇧 King's College London




This week sees Sarah Wollaston join me as Prevention is the new cure new co-host and we’re delighted to welcome Simon Wessely as our guest. We’ll be talking his review into the Mental Health Act and the new Bill before Parliament. Mind Out Thursday!




For St David’s Day we present our latest Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration. Ciaran Jenkins (cello) is in Glasgow and I’m in Moscow (on the piano). Together we play Myfanwy. Ciaran Jenkins BBC News (UK) Channel 4 News BBC Radio 3 BBC Breakfast BBC Wales 🏴


🥳 Congratulations to Poppy Ellis Logan, overall winner of the King's Social Science & Public Policy Impact Prize 2025! 📣 Her work on public health messaging impressed the judges and the audience. 🏆 Many thanks and congratulations to all the prize winners and runners-up from across the Faculty. Read


It’s good that what was becoming increasingly obvious is now open. It was always a fiction that the most important institution in the land costing 180 billion a year was “above politics”. But there is a lot that’s good about NHS England and that mustn’t be an unintended

Tomorrow, I’ll be at the Imperial War Museums, speaking alongside some brilliant minds on the subject of war trauma and healing. Full details below.

