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Papers from the Ministerial Advisory Group on the Mental Health Strategy

Andre Tomlin

The Department of Health have published a set of papers from the first meeting of the Ministerial Advisory Group on the Mental Health Strategy, chaired by Paul Burstow, Minister of State for Care Services.  The Minister leads on overseeing the implementation of No health without mental Health: a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages, which was published in February 2011.

The main role of the Ministerial Advisory Group on the Mental Health Strategy is to ensure the co-ordination of work across all partner organisations, across Government, and across the Department of Health and help support the Government’s aim of achieving parity of esteem between physical and mental health.

The papers from the first meeting are:

 

All bets are off? Europe’s patchwork of gambling advertising laws
Interventions to improve social circumstances among people with mental health conditions
A map of England’s community mental health interventions: are we meeting people’s needs?
Written by

André Tomlin is an Information Scientist with 20 years experience working in evidence-based healthcare. He's worked in the NHS, for Oxford University and since 2002 as Managing Director of Minervation Ltd, a consultancy company who do clever digital stuff for charities, universities and the public sector. Most recently André has been the driving force behind the Mental Elf and the National Elf Service; an innovative digital platform that helps professionals keep up to date with simple, clear and engaging summaries of evidence-based research. André is a Trustee at the Centre for Mental Health and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London Division of Psychiatry. He lives in Bristol, surrounded by dogs, elflings and lots of woodland!

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  • Ann C Dawson

    Ann C Dawson

    15 years ago
    I'm concerned about the absence of learning disabilities throughout the papers. Issues of stigma, quality of care, decrimination etc are of significance to people with learning disabilities. Unless they are expicitly included they will continue to be marginalised and their needs ignored.
  • angela coley

    angela coley

    15 years ago
    Love the `Mental Elf' title.