UK GOVERNMENT REPORT: Mental health care in Britain is ‘unacceptable’

The taskforce, created in March last year, spoke to over 20,000 people to understand what the top mental health service priorities list should be over the next five years.

David Cameron said the extra money will help the Government’s ambition to put mental and physical health on an equal footing.

McGinty said while Blunt may have “philosophical” differences with the Coalition’s support of Medicaid expansion, they find common ground in an understanding of the need to fund mental health care for people in crisis.

It will be run by the trust’s Healthy Minds team and will include help to improve mental wellbeing through groups and courses run in the local community and through support from mental health professionals, which together will help people cope with things like anxiety, stress and worry.

Mr Farmer added: “We need to prevent problems in the first place, and to respond to people’s mental health problems at the earliest possible opportunity”. This government talks a lot about mental health, but let’s be clear – on their watch, mental health services have had to contend with real term funding cuts, wholesale reorganisation and staffing shortages, all at a time of growing demand. Health care is lacking, underfunded and ruining many people’s lives, the report published by a taskforce set up by NHS England concluded.

The report authors have suggested integrating physical and mental health care and taking steps to ensure that people facing a crisis should have access to mental health care seven days a week and 24 hours a day.

Alan Hartman, vice-chairman of the Manchester Users Network, said the region’s mental health services are in a “complete mess”.

The lack of transparency in our mental health system is a key theme of the report. The report focuses on the 3 main green care interventions that are now helping people in England who have mental ill-health: care farming; environmental conservation; and social and therapeutic horticulture.

Research shows that there is also an increasing issues of mental health problems within primary school children, and those affected have very limited access to care.

At the moment, 24/7 community-based mental health crisis care is only available in half the country, but by 2020-21 home treatment for patients in crisis should be available all over England and every acute hospital will have mental health liaison services in emergency departments.

It comes just weeks after the MEN revealed how Greater Manchester’s mental health services are in crisis.

He called for an end to the culture of “silence” around mental health problems.

If we’re not serving them we know what happens.

Stephen Dalton, chief executive of the Mental Health Network, said: “This important report will be widely supported by mental health service providers – all of which have been straining to provide care with shrinking resources”.

The extra money is to be taken from the £8.4bn the government has promised to the health service this Parliament.

“People who are mentally ill require specialist help in order to get better”.