Managing patients with complex needs
Improving mental health care for people with complex needs can reduce pressures on GPs and hospitals as well as dramatically improving people’s lives.
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A place for parity
This report looks at how much focus health and wellbeing boards have given to mental health in their strategies and sets out recommendations
Mental health promotion and mental illness prevention: The economic case
Many forms of prevention and early intervention in mental health are outstandingly good value for money and radically improve the quality of people’s lives.
What’s it worth now?
What’s it Worth Now? estimates of social and economic costs of mental health problems in Scotland, with a particular focus on the employment-related costs.
Pathways to unlocking secure mental health care
This report examines how pathways into and through secure mental health services can be improved to ensure a better flow between prison and secure services.
Diversion: the business case for action
Diversion shows diversion from custody is still much cheaper than just a few weeks in prison. Well-designed diversion schemes can help to reduce reoffending by one third.
A label for exclusion
This policy paper identifies areas and practical examples of how the commissioning and delivery of alcohol interventions for offenders in the community might be developed.
Briefing 42: Beyond the Gate
Only a small proportion of prisoners in England have jobs to go to on release and employment support is too often denied to offenders with mental health problems.
The economic and social costs of mental health problems in 2009/10
This policy paper calculates the economic and social costs of mental illness including the costs of health and social care, lost output and the human costs of reduced quality of life.
Under the radar
Under the Radar calls for better diversion from custodial sentences for women with a personality disorder and increased training for prison staff.