We need to transform healthcare in this country
Paul Burstow MP talks about a visitor to his constituency surgery.
Type: Blog
A place for parity
Most of England’s Health and Wellbeing Boards are prioritising at least one mental health issue in their strategies but almost one in ten has ignored them entirely.
Type: Page
Parity of esteem: a briefing note
Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. This briefing note gives an overview of the situation and the impacts.
Type: Publication
Bridging the gap
A rebalancing of health and care resources is needed to ensure no one is denied the mental or physical health care they need.
Type: Publication
The NHS Constitution: a briefing note
The NHS Constitution sets out what you can expect from the NHS as a patient and as a staff member.
Type: Publication
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
The Mental Health Treatment Requirement
The MHTR has unfulfilled potential to offer offenders with mental health problems the option of a sentence in the community.
Type: Publication
A label for exclusion
This policy paper identifies areas and practical examples of how the commissioning and delivery of alcohol interventions for offenders in the community might be developed.
Type: Publication
Making recovery a reality
Recovery turns mental health services’ priorities on their heads. Mental health services need to demonstrate success in helping service users to get their lives back.
Type: Publication
We Need To Talk
We Need To Talk examines the provision of psychological therapies and calls on the Government to provide psychological therapy through the NHS in line with NICE guidance.
Type: Publication