Integrated Mental And Physical Health Approach

National standards and service models Standards will be set in five areas: Standard one - Mental health promotion Standards two -Primary care and access to services and three Standards four Effective services for people with severe mental illness and five Standard six Caring about carers Standard seven Preventing suicide The standards are realistic, challenging and measurable, and are based on the best available evidence. They will help to reduce variations in practice and deliver improvements for patients, service users and their carers, and for local health and social care communities - health authorities, local authorities, NHS trusts, primary care groups and trusts, and the independant sector. Priority actions for the

An integrated mental and physical health approach
“Making physical and mental health care equally important means that someone with a disability or health problem won’t just have that treated, they will also be offered advice and help to ensure their recovery is as smooth as possible, or in the case of physical illness a person cannot recover from, more should be done for their mental wellbeing as this is a huge part of learning to cope or manage a physical illness. 3.. Promoting good mental health and preventing poor mental health– helping people lead better lives as equal citizens
“If I’d had the help in my teens that I finally got in my thirties, I wouldn’t have lost my twenties.”
Prevention matters - it’s the only way that lasting change can be achieved. Helping people lead fulfilled, productive lives is not the remit of the NHS alone. It involves good parenting and school support during the early years, decent housing, good work, supportive communities and the opportunity to forge satisfying relationships. These span across national and local government, so the Taskforce has a set

Recommendation 5: By 2020/21, NHS England and the Joint Unit for Work and Health should ensure that up to 29,000 more people per year living with mental health problems should be supported to find or stay in work through increasing access to psychological therapies for common mental health problems (see Chapter Two) and doubling the reach of Individual Placement and Support (IPS). The Department of Work and Pensions should also invest to ensure that qualified employment advisers are fully integrated into expanded psychological therapies services. Recommendation 6: The Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions, working with NHS England and PHE, should identify how the £40 million innovation fund announced at the Spending Review and other investment streams should be used to support devolved areas to jointly commission more services that have been proven to improve mental health and employment outcomes, and test how the principles of these services could be applied to other population groups and new funding mechanisms (e.g.