The paper sets out some bold new ideas about how health services can adapt to meet new challenges and offer a better service for people’s mental as well as physical health.
Perinatal mental health problems carry a total cost to society of about £8.1 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK. But the NHS would need to spend just £337 million a year to bring perinatal mental health care up to the recommended level.
Perinatal mental health problems carry a total economic and social long-term cost to society of about £8.1 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK.
The Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation’s Quality Watch report is a stark reminder of the distance we have to travel to put access to mental health care on a par with that for physical health services.
The Government and NHS England have set out the first meaningful waiting time standards for mental health services in England.
We warmly welcome the Government’s commitment to produce waiting time standards for mental health services. This is a vital step towards creating parity of access to mental health care and to overcoming the ‘institutional bias’ in the NHS.
Read our manifesto for making mental health research a priority during the General Election and in government.
Making Work Work will help more people with long-term mental health conditions to get work while the IPS in IAPT pilot will test out whether the evidence-based IPS approach can be adapted to primary care for people with anxiety and depression.
Sir Keir Starmer gave a lecture for us on mental health and criminal justice.
The CQC’s national survey of community mental health services is one of the key barometers of how well the NHS is responding to the needs of working age people with long-term mental health conditions.