
The Government has committed to spend an additional £400 million over the next four years on a limited range of NICE-approved talking therapies for which only around 15% of patients originally referred to the series reach recovery.
Britain is characterised by an unfinished revolution in mental health care, with many patients unable to access the treatment they need to make a full recovery.
This interim report from the CSJ’s Mental Health Working Group makes it clear that no other health condition matches mental ill-health in term of prevalence, persistence and breadth of social and economic impact.