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Mental health of the nation: the contribution of psychiatry; a report of the President's working group
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 60p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Response to the Secretary of State for Health's strategy paper 'The health of the nation', which identifies mental health as a key area.
A manifesto for mental health: rebuilding mental health services for the 21st century
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Document setting out the issues which the new Government will have to address to solve the current crisis in mental health services and to build on good practice and improve the nation's mental health.
Next steps for funding mental healthcare in England: prevention
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 26
- Place of publication:
- London
Focusing on prevention, this paper considers the next steps for funding mental healthcare in England. It is the second in a series covering four areas that must be fully and sustainably resourced if there is to be the progress in the access to and quality of mental health services. These areas include infrastructure, prevention, people, and technology. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of community cohesion and drawing on community resources in the widest sense and the need to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent poor mental and physical health at the earliest opportunity. The paper makes a case for an increase in the funding available to local government and the NHS to enable: local authorities to prepare and respond to increasing levels of mental distress and co-morbid physical health problems in the population due to COVID-19 and as a result of lockdown, which has caused anxiety and loneliness, amongst other issues; mental health providers to prepare for an increase in demand for NHS mental health services (both planned and unplanned) as services deliver the ambitions of the LTP while also addressing a backlog of patients; local authorities and the NHS to prepare for an increase in demand for drug and alcohol use disorder services given the way in which the pandemic has exacerbated these illnesses, and the reduced availability of some services during the peak; and local authorities and the NHS to prepare for an increase in demand for mental health social care support, given the need to discharge patients safely into the community with a package of care in place and for the impact the pandemic is having on children and young people and their families. (Edited publisher abstract)
Whole person care: from rhetoric to reality: achieving parity between physical and mental health: summary
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 15
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of a working group report looking at a 'parity' approach to mental and physical health. The report builds on the Implementation Framework for the Mental Health Strategy 5 in providing further analysis of why parity does not currently exist, and the actions required to bring it about. The parity of esteem working group has identified a wide range of factors affecting the long-standing lack of parity between mental and physical health and this report makes recommendations for addressing these. It also presents a number of commitments that working group member organisations have made to achieving change in these areas. (Edited publisher abstract)
Whole-person care: from rhetoric to reality: achieving parity between mental and physical health
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 96
- Place of publication:
- London
This working group report should be seen as the first stage of an ongoing process over the next 5–10 years that will deliver parity for mental health and make whole-person care a reality. It builds on the Implementation Framework for the Mental Health Strategy 5 in providing further analysis of why parity does not currently exist, and the actions required to bring it about. A ‘parity approach’ should enable NHS and local authority health and social care services to provide a holistic, ‘whole person’ response to each individual, whatever their needs, and should ensure that all publicly funded services, including those provided by private organisations, give people’s mental health equal status to their physical health needs. Central to this approach is the fact that there is a strong relationship between mental health and physical health, and that this influence works in both directions. Mental health affects physical health and vice versa. The parity of esteem working group has identified a wide range of factors affecting the long-standing lack of parity between mental and physical health and this report makes recommendations for addressing these. It also presents a number of commitments that working group member organisations have made to achieving change in these areas. (Edited publisher abstract)