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.
The total cost of mental health problems in England in 2009/10 was £105.2 billion.
Around nine out of 10 people who commit suicide suffer from a mental health problem with depression being the most common, affecting 60% of those who take their own lives.
Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. There are however many areas where parity of esteem has not yet been realised.
