23 October 2014

Places of safety must match levels of need

We are very concerned that police cells continue to be used in mental health crises and that in some areas appropriate places of safety are still not available.

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23 October 2014

NHS England five year vision must support genuine parity between mental and physical health, says Centre

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.

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20 October 2014

Shocking failure to fully address mental health problems in pregnancy and following childbirth costs over £8 billion, report finds

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.

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10 October 2014

Two major reports show how far we have to go to achieve parity, says Centre for Mental Health

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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