The Government's response to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health

Author(s)

GREAT BRITAIN. Her Majesty's Government

Publisher(s):

Great Britain. Her Majesty's Government

Publication year:

2017

This report sets out the Government’s response to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health report by the Mental Health Taskforce. While accepting the taskforce report’s recommendations in full, this document sets out a far-reaching programme of work to improve mental health services and their links to other public services, and builds mental health prevention and response into the work of Government departments to improve the nation’s mental health and reduce the impacts of mental illness. Key areas covered include: local offer to children and young people; multi-agency suicide prevention plans; tackling alcoholism and drug addiction; access to psychological therapies; improving mental health and employment outcomes; specialist housing support for vulnerable people with mental health problems; behaviour change interventions; developing a complete health and justice pathway to deliver integrated health and justice interventions in the least restrictive setting; developing a 10-year strategy for mental health research; ensuring future updates to the Better Care Fund include mental health and social work services; ensuring GPs receive core mental health training and that the social care workforce is ready to provide high quality social work services in mental health; and ensuring accurate data collation and data sharing. (Edited publisher abstract)