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.
Improving mental health care for people with complex needs can reduce pressures on GPs and hospitals as well as dramatically improving people’s lives.
This report looks at how much focus health and wellbeing boards have given to mental health in their strategies and sets out recommendations
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? estimates of social and economic costs of mental health problems in Scotland, with a particular focus on the employment-related costs.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 calls for better diversion from custodial sentences for women with a personality disorder and increased training for prison staff.