Investing in children’s mental health
Investing in children’s mental health services will bring a lifetime of benefits to young people, their families, communities and the economy as a whole.
Type: Publication
Economic and social costs of mental health problems
The total cost of mental health problems in England in 2009/10 was £105.2 billion.
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Liaison psychiatry
Psychiatric liaison services provide mental health care to people being treated for physical health conditions in general hospitals.
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Outcomes and performance in liaison psychiatry
Psychiatric service models that seek to bring its benefits to the people in our acute care hospitals and medical and surgical care pathways have struggled to defend their value for the want of adequate measures of outcome.
Type: Publication
Mental health cost cutting is a false economy
The NHS should be investing in interventions that improve health and wellbeing, not cutting cost effective mental health services, says Sean Duggan.
Type: Blog
Investing in recovery
This report provides the most up-to-date economic evidence to support the business case for investment in effective, recovery-focused services.
Type: Publication
Loss of early intervention services is a false economy
Cutting early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services puts young people at risk of worse health and poorer life chances.
Type: News
How mental ill health affects the economy
The OECD report recognises that mental ill health is a major problem and that it is a problem creating significant costs for people, employers and the economy.
Type: Blog
The false economy of cuts to crisis care
Just weeks after exposing pressures on acute beds in mental health services, today there are further warnings about spending cuts in community teams across England.
Type: Blog
Mental health: the whole picture
Community budgets that pool funding for services could dramatically improve mental health provision. This ‘whole place’ approach should be backed in the Spending review.
Type: Blog