Event details
The NHS long term plan (LTP) builds on the commitments for mental health services set out in the five-year forward view for mental health (FYFVMH), emphasising collaboration and the use of digital innovations to deliver more personalised and streamlined care. The mental health implementation plan 2019/20-2023/24 provides a framework to support the delivery of these commitments locally, and sets out a combination of fixed, flexible and targeted approaches, with core national targets supported by flexibility for local systems to agree how best to deliver services.
To support the ambitions within the Plan, the NHS has made a renewed commitment that funding for mental health services will grow faster than the overall NHS budget, creating a new ringfenced local investment fund worth at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24.
In 2022 the Government issued a call for evidence to inform a new, 10-year cross-government Mental health and wellbeing plan. In January 2023 the Government announced it will publish a Major Conditions Strategy that will include mental health. The Government has said a joined up strategy will ensure that mental health conditions are considered alongside physical health conditions.
The GovConnect Mental Health annual conference is committed to providing learning and solutions which improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes, particularly for people who experience worse outcomes than the general population. This is a key part of our Governments commitment to ‘level up’, and address unequal outcomes and life chances across the country. The government has committed to develop a new cross-government, 10-year plan for mental health and wellbeing for England to support this objective.
Mental Health 2023 – Delivering Collaborative Whole Pathways of Care. Will give attendees the opportunity to engage with key personnel from delivery partners and national stakeholder organisations, providing an assessment of FYFVMH transition to LTP planning and delivery progress, addressing the 13 core areas of mental health services provision set out in the implementation plan, including child and adolescent mental health, maternal mental health services, the mental health of older people, and care for people with serious mental illness.
Along with learning and interactive debate on:
- How can we improve the quality and effectiveness of treatment for mental health conditions?
- How can we all support people living with mental health conditions to live well?
- How can we improve the quality and effectiveness of treatment for mental health conditions?
- How can we all improve support for people in crisis?
- How can we all intervene earlier when people need support with their mental health?
- We invite all organisations and individuals from all NHS settings, Local authorities, independent and VCSE sectors and private providers to join us at the Royal Society of Medicine, London.