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.
Mental health services are unable to cope with demand for psychological therapies. Huge variations in referral rates and waiting times around the country are unacceptable and are making people more unwell.
People in forensic (or secure) mental health services should be offered support that helps them in their personal recovery journeys, according to a new briefing paper.
Mental health can no longer be sidelined or ignored either by the NHS or by public health services.
Better, faster and earlier help for mental health is vital to improve people’s lives and represents excellent value for money.
The manifesto sets out straightforward, practical changes that a future Government could make in order to ensure mental and physical health are valued equally.
The Government’s ‘taskforce’ into children and young people’s mental health must focus on how to bring about a significant shift in resources to invest in early intervention and address shockingly high levels of unmet need.
Mental ill health is very common among prisoners, but the use of prison can often be avoided if people are diverted early on in their contact with the justice system. We’re finding ways to fix this.
