This guidance aims to provide a clear framework within which staff can continue developing services in the future, in partnership with people using services and carers. It also reaffirms this area as 'core business' and a priority for mainstream mental health services, also working in collaboration with other agencies, such as substance misuse services and drug action teams. The guidance covers: policy; assessment and treatment procedures; implementation; and includes references.
This guidance aims to provide a clear framework within which staff can continue developing services in the future, in partnership with people using services and carers. It also reaffirms this area as 'core business' and a priority for mainstream mental health services, also working in collaboration with other agencies, such as substance misuse services and drug action teams. The guidance covers: policy; assessment and treatment procedures; implementation; and includes references.
Subject terms:
joint working, mental health services, policy, substance misuse, treatment, therapy and treatment, assessment, collaboration, dual diagnosis;
Social prescribing is a mechanism for linking patients in primary care with community servivces and care. This report aims to demonstrate opportunities for linking mental health promotion to the broader public health and regeneration agenda, and, extending the commitment to mental health promotion across the system. There is a need to make the case for the added value of mental health promotion to the Modernisation Boards within the NHS, and to a wide variety of other stakeholders. It will require a strategic approach with local authority responsibility for economic and social wellbeing, and the increase in education about citizenship.
Social prescribing is a mechanism for linking patients in primary care with community servivces and care. This report aims to demonstrate opportunities for linking mental health promotion to the broader public health and regeneration agenda, and, extending the commitment to mental health promotion across the system. There is a need to make the case for the added value of mental health promotion to the Modernisation Boards within the NHS, and to a wide variety of other stakeholders. It will require a strategic approach with local authority responsibility for economic and social wellbeing, and the increase in education about citizenship.
Subject terms:
joint working, joint planning, local authorities, mental health problems, mental health services, primary care, quality of life, social care provision, community care, citizenship, health education, social prescribing;
Social prescribing links patients in primary care with non-medical sources of support within the community. It is part of a wider recognition of the influence of social and cultural factors on mental health outcomes. This article is based on a new evidence review commissioned by the Northern Centre for Mental Health to support the wider use of social prescribing in primary care to achieve more positive outcomes for vulnerable client groups, including people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety and people with long term difficulties. Highlights some evaluated models of social prescribing and looks at their success.
Social prescribing links patients in primary care with non-medical sources of support within the community. It is part of a wider recognition of the influence of social and cultural factors on mental health outcomes. This article is based on a new evidence review commissioned by the Northern Centre for Mental Health to support the wider use of social prescribing in primary care to achieve more positive outcomes for vulnerable client groups, including people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety and people with long term difficulties. Highlights some evaluated models of social prescribing and looks at their success.
Subject terms:
intervention, mental health problems, primary care, social care provision, treatment, therapy and treatment, anxiety, community care, depression, general practitioners, social prescribing;