Improving Support for People with Complex Mental Health Difficulties

A new report from the Centre for Mental Health explores how to improve care for people living with complex mental health difficulties.

The report shows that long hospital stays far from home can leave people feeling isolated and disconnected from their communities. It offers a more compassionate and effective alternative through local community-based support that includes intensive psychotherapy, therapeutic day programmes and high-support accommodation when needed.

This approach helps people stay close to family, friends and familiar surroundings while receiving specialist care. It reminds us that recovery is not only about treatment but also about connection, belonging and stability.

Read the full report here: CentreforMH_ImprovingSupportForPeopleWithComplexMHDifficulties.pdf

Implementation Guidance

Psychological Therapies for Severe Mental Health Problems

Source: KnowledgeShare

Psychological therapies for severe mental health problems: implementation guidance 2024.
NHS England; 2024.

This guidance is for NHS-commissioned mental health provider organisations, integrated care boards (ICBs), regional NHS England offices, and chief psychological professions officers in mental health trusts. It aims to support mental health providers to deliver the NHS long term plan objective to increase access to psychological therapies for people with severe mental health problems, as part of a wider transformation of adult and older adult community mental health services.
Freely available online

Psychological Therapies

Annual report on the use of IAPT services 2019-2020

The publication contains analyses on activity, waiting times and outcomes such as recovery in 2019-20. In addition, the report covers a range of demographic analyses including outcomes for patients of different ages, ethnic group and separately for ex-British Armed Forces personnel.

Key facts include;

  • 1.69 million referrals to talking therapies
  • 87.4% started treatment within 6 weeks
  • 1.17 million referrals started treatment
  • 6.9 sessions of treatment on average
  • 606,192 referrals completed course of treatment
  • 51.1% referrals moved to recovery

To read the full report or find out more information click here.