We've worked with New Statesman magazine to bring together experts, including senior civil servants, politicians, opinion formers and experts from the mental health sector, to discuss the future of mental health within the NHS in England.
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Delegates included聽Claire Murdoch, the mental health director for NHS England, Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Willis of Knaresborough, and Conservative MP Helen Whately,聽chair of the all-party parliamentary group for mental health.
The roundtable meeting also considered the workforce required to deliver expanded services and the role counselling and psychotherapy could play in delivering the government鈥檚 ambition to increase the number of people benefitting from psychological therapies.聽
Key points of the discussion included:聽
- how to develop and deliver the workforce needed to expand services to meet need
- how to deliver a choice of psychological therapies to clients, moving away from a system overly reliant on a small number of interventions which don鈥檛 work for everyone
- recognising that mental health problems exist far beyond the confines of the NHS and bring in broader issues such as housing and employment聽
You can read the full article of on the meeting on the or download the pdf below:
The future of mental health provision (pdf 0.7MB)
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