NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/2020-2023/2023
The NHS Long-term plan commits to transforming mental health care. The Mental Health Implementation Plan provides a new framework to ensure we deliver on this commitment at a local level. There are 9 priority areas for mental health, each with core ambitions for service delivery improvements, they are:
- Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health
- Children & Young People’s Mental Health
- Adult Common Mental Illnesses (IAPT)
- Adult Severe Mental Illness
- Mental Health Crisis Care & Liaison
- Therapeutic Acute Mental Health Inpatient Care
- Suicide Reduction & Bereavement Support
- Problem Gambling & Mental Health Support
- Rough Sleeping Mental Health Support
The placement planning tool does not include ‘6: Therapeutic Acute Mental Health Inpatient Care’, as it focuses instead on primary and secondary care settings.
Linking the Two Together
We propose that the work-based learning about mental health that trainee GPs do dovetails with the NHS priority improvement areas. We think it is important to link the mental health priority areas with the core capabilities for trainee GPs.
The aim of this is to ensure that trainee GPs learn the right skills and are exposed to the priority improvement areas. Thus increasing the likelihood of future general practice staff being able to meet the rising mental health need.