The report, The Five Year Forward View For Mental Health, released today, called for one million extra people to be provided with support for their mental health problem by 2020/21, and was branded by Royal College of Nursing chief executive Janet Davies as a “brave new vision”.
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“Unfortunately, those coping with a mental health issue and their families are too often confronted with a health care system that is unable to provide the access and quality of care they need”. The report notes how antidepressants are proving less popular than alternative treatments, a sentiment echoed today by the National Health Service of England.
The Missouri Coalition’s wider goal, however, is to expand access to mental health care enough that people are served before they are in crisis.
WORCESTERSHIRE’S main provider of mental health services is inviting the county’s residents to help it shape some of its future services.
“The Welsh government has also made a significant new investment of £7.65m in child and adolescent mental health services this year – a 17% increase compared to 2013-14”.
The trust has been working with mental health commissioners who fund healthcare services and want money redirected from some secondary care to the development of the new Worcestershire Healthy Minds service.
NHS England has accepted a five-year blueprint to address the growing crisis in mental health services and pledged to increase investment by an extra £1bn a year by 2020.
“The NHS clearly sees relation of venerate as a pivotal priority and wish to prioritise improving mental health”.
That pressure appears to be having an impact; around 75 percent of people receive “no help” for their mental health problems, the NHS England report said, with “hundreds of thousands” patients’ lives “put on hold or ruined” and links to “thousands of tragic and unnecessary deaths”. We need to prevent problems in the first place, and to respond to people’s mental health problems at the earliest possible opportunity’. It says the funding should be on top of an existing government commitment to spend an extra £280m annually in children’s mental health provision.
From 1 June 2016 the Constabulary policy will be to limit cell use under the Mental Health Act to “exceptional circumstances” only, specifically where a person would present an unmanageable risk in a health setting.
In Scotland, mental health spending was adult usually 0.1% final year, and down a projected 0.4% this year.
All areas of society, such as schools, workplaces and community organisations need to contribute to the promotion of good mental health and prevention of mental health problems – in all areas of people’s lives.
The Welsh Government said mental health spending has been ringfenced since 2008 and more was spent on it than any other part of the Welsh NHS.
“While CCG programme budgets for physical health are broken down by disease, there is only one category for mental health”.
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The Health and Social Care Bill, which became law in the last parliament, included a demand for parity of esteem – meaning mental and physical health services should be treated equally.
