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The mental health strategy, system reforms and spending pressures: what do we know so far?
- Authors:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government’s 2011 mental health strategy, ‘No Health Without Mental Health’, set out a vision for both improved mental health for all and better support for people with mental health problems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the delivery of this strategy. A brief questionnaire was sent to 24 national organisations to identify key themes from intelligence they had received to date from their members. This was followed up by either a face-to-face or phone interview with the 17 organisations that responded. The interview focussed on how delivery of the strategy was being influenced by pressures on public spending and the emerging reforms in health local government and other public services. This research paper summarises the main findings of that process and the implications of these findings for mental health policy and practice in England. The findings suggest that the strategy’s practical impact on service commissioning and provision has been limited; knowledge of the strategy among commissioners in particular is variable and there is little evidence that it is being used as a guide to local decision making.
Mental health care and the criminal justice system
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 10p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev ed.
England and Wales together have one of the highest rates of imprisonment in Western Europe, and responsibility for prison health care lies with the NHS. It aims to give prisoners access to the same quality and range of health services as the general public receives in the community. This is an enormous challenge. Many prisoners have a combination of mental health problems, substance misuse and personality disorder, as well as a range of other issues to deal with. But the costs, both financial and social, of containing people in prison without access to appropriate health care are high. This briefing paper examines the provision of mental health care for adults in the criminal justice system. It looks at what has been achieved to date and identifies priorities for further work.