The 10-year health plan must take every opportunity to align with the goals set out in the health mission and its strategy for tackling health inequalities. NHS England should ensure that outcomes and process measures around tackling health inequalities are embedded within integrated care boards’ (ICBs) performance management structures.
Addressing health inequalities has been a priority in mental health for years, as highlighted in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan. The NHS Talking Therapies team’s work on advancing mental health equalities forms part of NHS England’s commitments to reduce mental health inequalities, and builds on the […]
The NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20–2023/24, which gives the detail underpinning the NHS LTP ambitions for mental health, sets the expectation that all systems need to reduce mental health inequalities by 2023/24. A summary of some of the most pervasive mental health inequalities in England are provided in Annex 1 of the strategy.
The CORE20PLUS framework, developed by NHS England (NHSE), includes those groups we know experience health inequalities across health protection outcomes. Health protection inequalities means that ...
The number of NHS mental health staff has increased by 19% between 2016/17 and 2022/23. The number of people using mental health services has increased by 36% in the same period. ... Barr et al., 2015 Trends in mental health inequalities in England during a period of recession, austerity and welfare reform 2004 to 2013 – ScienceDirect. WHO, ...
Reducing inequalities is a defining feature of the NHS Long Term Plan, which acknowledges “…while we cannot treat our way out of inequalities, the NHS can ensure that action to drive down health inequalities is central to everything we do.” The NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20–2023/24 gives the detail underpinning the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for mental health and sets ...
As well as the costs to the social, physical and mental health of our communities, it was estimated that inequalities in emergency infectious disease hospital admissions cost the NHS between £970 ...
In 2022/23 NHS England also provided funding of around £695 million to integrated care boards (ICBs) on the condition that they have a clear plan in place to address mental health inequalities in their area. In 2018, the government published the final report from the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act. Under the terms of reference ...
People from Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities facing mental illness or distress encounter barriers in accessing personalised mental health care, including personal health budgets, which are essential for their safety and recovery. This report, by the Association of Mental Health Providers, NHS England and the Race Equality Foundation, aims to provide solutions to these
The new report from the NHS Race & Health Observatory calls on commissioners, clinicians, and healthcare organisations to address ethnic health inequalities. This can be done by improving resources and training to enhance understanding of mental health inequality, and by recruiting culturally sensitive and ethnically diverse therapists.
Several policies in the UK have highlighted the pervasive mental health inequalities experienced by racially minoritised groups, in particular Black men [99, 100]. The Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) seeks to embed anti-racist practice and policies in NHS mental health services to advance mental health equalities .
It calls on the Government to reduce mental health inequality, including by reducing the high levels of inequality of wealth and income in the UK, which damage mental health; and by giving a stronger equality duty to public services. ... It calls for long-term commitment in the NHS to its recent Advancing Mental Health Equalities strategy. And ...
Statement on Information on Health Inequalities Our full response to NHS England’s Statement on Information on Health Inequalities (duty under section 13SA of the National Health Service Act 2006) will be published, in line with NHS England’s requirements, on this webpage at the end of June.
In financial year 2024-25, mental health spending amounted to £14.9 billion and all 42 integrated care boards are forecasting to meet the mental health investment standard. Real terms spending on mental health in 2024-25 is forecast to be £695m higher than in 2023-24. For 2025-26, mental health spending is forecast to amount to £15.6 billion.
The strategy sits alongside the NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 – 2023/24, which sets expectations for reducing mental health inequalities in local communities by 2023/24. Those leading *integrated care systems (ICS) have also been required to plan to step up action to address health inequalities as part of their response to ...
Responding to the Welsh Government’s new 10 year mental health and wellbeing strategy, assistant director of the Welsh NHS Confederation Nesta Lloyd-Jones said: “We welcome the shift in approach set out in the new Welsh Government’s 10 year mental health and wellbeing strategy, which is centred on early intervention, prevention and person-centred care.
Fact sheet: Muslim mental health. This fact sheet, developed in partnership with the Woolf Institute, brings together the latest available evidence on Muslim mental health across the life course, highlighting the urgent need to tackle the stark inequalities in Muslims’ access to, experience of and outcomes from mental health services.
