World Mental Health day- 10th October

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Well today was world mental health day. We got some encouraging news here.

Five national mental health charities today joined together to welcome the Secretary of State for Health's commitment to ensuring all GPs in England can offer their patients psychological therapies within six years.
The Mental Health Foundation, Mind, Rethink, the Sainsbury Centre and YoungMinds are campaigning together for government guidance on psychological therapies to be implemented nationally. Today, the Government announced funding that will rise to £170 million a year by 2010/11 for its
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.

The announcement is a massive boost for people across the country. It should mean that the long waiting times, of as much as 18 months, will be a thing of the past within six years. It should help more people keep their jobs, stay in education and maintain family life. It will be a worthwhile investment for all of us.

To make the most of this historic opportunity, we now need further investment in research on the benefits of different psychological therapies, a robust system of regulation for professionals and a national waiting time measure for access to therapy.

http://www.mind.org.uk/News+policy+a...-07-pt-csr.htm