NSUN newsMental Health Taskforce report launched todayNHS commits to major transformation in mental health care: The NHS in England today (Monday 15 February 2016) commits to the biggest transformation of mental health care
across the NHS in a generation, pledging to help more than a million extra people and investing more than a billion pounds a year by 2020/21.
It is making the move in response to the final report of an independent taskforce, chaired by the Chief Executive of Mind Paul Farmer, set up by the NHS as part of its Five Year Forward View to build consensus on how to improve services for people of all ages. Read the full press release
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Friday 26th February 2016. Member Blogs‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need a Non-medical Crisis House in Every Town - by Anne Cooke, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and regular contibutor to 'Mad In America'. This blog
focuses on Drayton Park women’s crisis house in North London, which offers an alternative to hospital admission.
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