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New Horizons - what's next for mental health?
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Last modified date:14 May 2009
Ahead of us lie the opportunities to build on all these achievements, maintain the momentum for improvements and ensure all areas of the country have the services they need.
You may have heard about New Horizons, a project involving a wide range of organisations and individuals with an active interest in improving mental health. Together we are developing a new and reinvigorated vision to replace the existing National Service Framework, which comes to an end in 2009.
This new phase of reform will reflect the themes emerging from Lord Darzi's report, The Next Stage Review, with its emphasis on prevention, patient empowerment and quality. It will bring together key areas of policy, increasingly addressing the mental well-being of communities as a whole and extending the progress made to date across all age groups, and to more marginal ones, such as offenders. Broader NHS priorities will also help shape our services, with themes such as health inequalities, the value of carers and dignity in care all contributing to an ever improving service
A public consultation around the New Horizons work is planned to run up to World Mental Health Day.
If you have any observations or suggestions, please do email newhorizons@dh.gsi.gov.uk
or write to:
New Horizons
Department of Health
217 Wellington House
133-15 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8UG
Thank you for your interest
Louis Appleby
National Director for Mental Health
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