Mental Health: Better, Faster and Earlier Help will explore how public services can better meet the needs of people experiencing mental health problems, help support recovery and improve outcomes.
Mental health is high on the political and media agenda. High profile battles with mental health problems have dominated headlines and the Deputy Prime Minister has made a commitment to ‘end the discrimination against mental health’. The introduction of access and waiting time targets for people with mental health problems in England is scheduled to start in April 2015 and is seen as the first step of reforming mental health services so they share the same priority as physical health problems.
With one in four affected by mental illness it is the single largest source of burden of disease in the UK. Mental illness is consistently associated with deprivation, low income, unemployment, poor education, poorer physical health and increased health-risk behaviour. As well as the human and social cost there is also an economic one, with wider costs in England estimated to be £105 billion a year.
Join us at our second annual conference that will explore the most effective strategies for improving mental health outcomes and how services can work together to deliver better care.
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