"A report, published today by the Mental Health Foundation sets out some key messages as to what mental health services need to do in order to ensure that they are ready to address the mental health needs of the UK population in 20-30 years' time.
"Our Inquiry found that the case for more preventative work is undeniable. Lacking a 'cure' for mental illness, a reduction in the number of people across the UK developing mental disorders appears to us to be the only way that mental health services will adequately cope with demand in 20-30 years' time.
"We need fresh ways of working in mental health, ensuring the best use of available resources and working in truly integrated fashion. New technology will no doubt bring about more changes as well as challenges. But much of what in our view needs to be done is simply implementing known good practice that already exists. Failure to provide good, integrated mental health care is not a failure of understanding what needs to be done, it is a failure of actually implementing good practice in organisational strategies and the day to day business of providing people with the care and treatment that they want. We need to start today to rectify that."...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-future-mental-health.html
Report: "Starting Today: Future of Mental Health Services." Mental Health Foundation. (Sept. 2013).
Short on time? Use our Category Search page.
Comments (0)