8 October 2014
Access and waiting time standards for mental health are a vital first step to parity
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.
3 October 2014
General Election 2015: Prioritising Mental Health Research
Read our manifesto for making mental health research a priority during the General Election and in government.
3 October 2014
Centre for Mental Health begins work to offer more people best available help with employment
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.
16 September 2014
Mental health services unable to cope with demand for psychological therapies, says coalition
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.
11 September 2014
Recovery support can help people in forensic mental health services, says ImROC
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.
9 September 2014
Chief Medical Officer’s report sets clear agenda for reinvestment in better mental health
Better, faster and earlier help for mental health is vital to improve people’s lives and represents excellent value for money.
22 August 2014
England’s leading mental health organisations call on all political parties to make mental health a priority in run up to election
The manifesto sets out straightforward, practical changes that a future Government could make in order to ensure mental and physical health are valued equally.
20 August 2014
Taskforce needs to find ways to reinvest in children’s mental health, says Centre’s Chief Executive
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.
8 July 2014
Shocking gaps in UK maternal mental health services – #everyonesbusiness campaign launched today
Pregnant women and new mothers across almost half of the UK do not have access to specialist perinatal mental health services, potentially leaving them and their babies at risk.
8 July 2014
Happiness is the government’s business say mental health experts
The ‘pursuit of happiness’ must become an explicit and measurable goal of government if the £105 billion annual cost of mental illness in England is to be reduced, according to a report published by a group of leading mental health experts.
10 June 2014
Five years of solid progress since Bradley Report must be sustained by local and national action, says Independent Commission
Successful implementation of liaison and diversion will depend on local services offering effective and engaging support to people of all ages who are diverted.
6 June 2014
Person centred safety planning can help to manage risk and support recovery, new briefing paper shows
Risk and safety are rightly major concerns in mental health care but traditional methods of assessing risk have stood in the way of helping people to recover.