Introducing the PHE National Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health
Journal Title: Journal of Geriatric Care and Research - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Just over a month ago, Public Health England (PHE) released the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health. This “concordat” aims to help local authorities, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) take practical steps to prevent mental health problems and promote better mental health; these commitments were featured earlier in the NHS England Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. This Concordat represents a very ambitious programme of work with a prodigious scope, and is not one single document. It instead comprises an inter-related collection of evidence- based research and tools from the UK’s leading authorities on the various aspects and causes of mental health problems and mental health inequalities. As such, all that can be attempted here is to present a brief “potted summary” introducing the huge compass of this body of work, with links to the original documents and tools. Certain items of particular local interest will be noted in passing. Inevitably, any such quick summary will do the full work some injustice.
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John Hudson
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