In a recent analysis of Australian population based, longitudinal data we identified three distinct classes of mental health trajectories for people after the onset of a ‘long term’ disability.
Considerable individual variability exists, however, in how an individual’s mental health might be affected by disability onset.
Not in employment, education or training before the onset of disability; not living with both parents at 14 age years; born overseas; and have parents whose highest extent of educational attainment was year 12 level or below, Individuals belonging to the latter group were more going to be younger. WHO Regional Office for Europe. Report from the WHO European Ministerial Conference. Consequently. Mental health. However, while building solutions, facing the challenges. World Health Organisation. Many of us know that there is variation in the ambition of firm taskforce recommendations. Some are surprisingly punchy. So there’re also recommendations on regulation, research, workforce, payment systems and information. Besides, the report vividly sets out the problems with mental health services within the themes of prevention and stigma, access and choice, and quality and experience.
Mostly there’re commitments for service expansion, most notably for psychological therapies for common mental health problems, 24/7 7 cr care, mental health care for children and young people and perinatal mental health services.
The graph below shows approximately how much of estimated need will be met through improvements set out in the report.
There will still be pick everyone to access care they need, even if all the commitments are met. Essentially, the report certainly advocates improvement in mental health services. Reading between the lines the taskforce may have wanted to go further in other areas. Oftentimes this seems at odds with cuts in public health, and starts from a low base. However, prevention is another area of tension. That is interesting. Prevention Concordat. Fact, a commitment to any expansion of services in mental health is a major achievement in the current context, whether everything can be afforded.
Mental health community and those working on the taskforce appear to have argued successfully for maintained focus and perhaps an increased share of NHS funding, for which it may be applauded.
The NHS England mental health taskforce has published its report, a Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
Besides, the initial reaction had been positive -alongside some concern about the money and implementation. Basically, a lot of the recommendations are for national bodies, and rhetoric about national roll out of ‘evidencebased’ standards does not chime well with local autonomy, the need for co produced commissioning and local autonomy is majored on. You might expect as the body that supports providers it will play a major role. Many of us are aware that there is also little firm support for commissioners and providers -NHS Improvement has only one recommendation against its name.
