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The economic and social costs of mental health problems in 2009/10
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A policy paper published in 2003 estimated that the economic and social costs of mental health problems in England in the financial year 2002/03 amounted to £77.4 billion. Using the same methodology, a straightforward updating of this figure suggests that the aggregate cost of mental health problems in England increased to £105.2 billion in 2009/10. This updated analysis shows that mental ill health should continue to be a priority issue for public policy. The cost of mental ill health continues to fall mainly upon those who experience it and their families but it also creates a high cost for taxpayers and for business. This report suggests that effective responses to people with mental health difficulties are value for public money. Providing good quality parenting support to people with young children, extending access to psychological therapy, early identification of distress at work, diverting offenders with mental health difficulties from custody and assisting people with severe mental health problems into paid work all make a difference to people’s lives and create both immediate and long-term savings to public finances.
Implementing mental health policy: learning from previous strategies
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- London
This report reviews previous mental health strategies to explore what helps and what hinders the implementation of policies relating to mental health in England. The report draws on a brief literature review of previous strategies and their implementation, focusing on how much impact they have made and what has been documented about why. It also draws on interviews and focus groups with 18 people responsible for the development, delivery and implementation of mental health strategies over the past 20-30 years. Based on the literature review and the interviews, the report identifies and sets out the evidence for 12 key themes that influence policy implementation. The themes are: money; focus; targets; scrutiny; support from the public and professionals; leadership; an engaged and motivated workforce; local and national partnerships; implementation support; innovation, evaluation and adaptation; management; and time to implement change. The report makes recommendations for Government, the NHS and Arms' Length Bodies. (Edited publisher abstract)
Improving England's mental health: the first 100 days and beyond
- Authors:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
Produced jointly by six of England’s leading mental health organisations, this is a plan for what the Government must do the first 100 days of the new Parliament to improve the lives of people with mental health problems. The plan sets out a number of practical actions that are required to ensure mental and physical health are valued equally. Poor mental health carries an economic and social cost of £105 billion annually in England and business loses £26 billion due to mental ill health every year. The paper identifies five areas where a range of actions are needed. Those include: ensure fair funding for mental health services; give children a good start in life; improve physical health care for people with mental health problems; improve the lives of people with mental health problems; and enable better access to mental health services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Recovery, public mental health and wellbeing: briefing
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Recovery is concerned with living a life beyond illness. This paper looks beyond mental health services to examine how public mental health and the growing 'wellbeing' movement can contribute to one of the key challenges for recovery: increasing opportunities for building a life beyond illness. The public health responsibilities of local councils, as well as the development of Health and Wellbeing Boards, are prompting creative thinking about what supports recovery where people live, as well as the benefits of greater integration between mental health services and public mental health and a more holistic approach to mental and physical health. This paper sets out the ways that health care providers, those using or working in mental health services, voluntary groups, commissioners of services, colleagues in public health and those with a role on Health and Wellbeing Boards, can support recovery through the development of public health and community based approaches. It concludes by outlining 12 opportunities for Health and Wellbeing boards to support commissioning that promotes and protects mental wellbeing and supports recovery.
Integrated Care Systems and mental health
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 10
- Place of publication:
- London
This policy briefing explores the potential for Integrated Care Systems (ICS) to bring about improvements in mental health support, and how doing this can contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of the health and care system as a whole. ICSs bring together NHS organisations and local authorities to plan health and care services together across the system and are responsible for implementing key aspects of the NHS Long Term Plan. This briefing identifies three main areas where Integrated Care Systems have the potential to improve the health and wellbeing of the community: preventing ill health; linking physical and mental health; and improving mental health services by tackling issues beyond the local level. It also identifies the challenges facing ICSs, which include: whether mental health will get prioritised, how the workforce can be sufficiently expanded, and how well ICSs work in partnership with local authorities, voluntary and community groups and people who use health and care services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Reforming the Mental Health Act: the implications of the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit's work for the Independent Review
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 10
- Place of publication:
- London
A briefing paper summarising key findings from ten research studies carried out by the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit to inform the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act. The paper explores issues such as the rising use of the Mental Health Act since 2007; patterns and variations in the use of mental health legislation (between ethnic and migrant groups and across social and clinical factors); approaches to preventing/reducing the use of the Act; compulsory community treatment; and the experiences of patients and carers. The research highlights the continuing inequalities in who is detained and the negative experiences of patients and their families when they are detained in hospital. The briefing outlines the conclusions of those ten studies and explores their implications for both national and local policymakers and commissioners. It highlights the importance of drawing on evidence of what works to reduce the use of compulsory powers and give people and their families a better experience of mental health care. (Edited publisher abstract)