Mental Health Outcomes Strategy

No Health without Mental Health

The cross-Government Mental Health Outcomes Strategy was launched on 2 February.

The strategy’s theme is that mental health is everyone’s business, whether employers, education, third sector or criminal justice and it takes a life course approach covering children and young people, adults to older people, in order to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the population and keep people well, and improve outcomes for people with mental health problems through high quality services that are equally accessible to all.

The plans include an additional investment of around £400 million to improve access to modern, evidence-based psychological therapies over the next four years. This will extend the current programme available to offer personalised support to 3.2 million people across the country, making available a choice of psychological therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Counselling for Depression, and Interpersonal Psychotherapy and ensuring access for anyone who needs it.

You can download the strategy from the DH website

Sitra events

Sitra are running a series of events on the strategy, the first of which takes place in London on 1 March. Find out more.