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Rural mental health across England is an area of  “considerable concern” according to a report by the cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.  Findings show that the needs of rural communities are not fully reflected in mental health policy, services, and national NHS planning and recommend that DEFRA and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) should establish a new rural mental health policy, with support for rural health providers. Helen Benson, chief executive of the Gamekeepers’ Welfare Trust said: “Publication of the findings of the rural mental health report is timely, given the pressures gamekeepers and their families are under at a time of rapid change. At the Gamekeepers’ Welfare Trust we are increasingly concerned for the mental health of the sector; long hours, isolation, disease and weather dependency we can cope with to a large extent but in addition to outside pressures, ill health or other personal circumstances can

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