Making the Care Act fairer: We wanted to find out what changes were needed from people who had real life experience of using social care because of their mental health. It aims to reduce the need for restrictive interventions of all kinds so they are only used as a last resort and says that prone restraint (face down on your front) should not be used deliberately. Positive and Proactive Care: Following our 2013 campaign report on physical restraint, the Government published new guidance 'Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions'. This set a precedent for the first time that 75 per cent of people waiting for talking therapies should be seen within 6 weeks, and 95 per cent should be seen within 18 weeks. Introduction of first ever waiting time standards for mental health: Following our calls as part of the We Need to Talk coalition, NHS England and the Department of Health introduced the first ever waiting standards for mental health services. Time to Change Phase 3: Along with our partners, Rethink Mental Illness, we secured funding from Comic Relief and the Department of Health to continue our Time to change anti-stigma campaign. And two parties even matched the We Need to Talk Wales coalition's call for a 28 day waiting time target for talking therapies. Mental health in all Welsh manifestos: For the first time, all the Welsh political parties mentioned mental health in their manifestos, placing it firmly on the agenda as a key election issue.

Wales Crisis Care Concordat: 336 instances of people being held in police cells in Wales in 2015/16, a decrease from the previous year (2014/15) when there were 541. This plan committed £1 billion so that one million more people will be able to access mental health services by 2021. Now we can hold local council's to account on how much they spend on promoting good mental health and preventing poor mental health.įYFV publication: In 2016, the Mental Health Taskforce, chaired by our Chief Executive Paul Farmer, published the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. Before our campaign, local councils were only required to report mental health as 'miscellaneous' spending which sent the message that mental health isn't a priority. Public health isn't miscellaneous anymore: Our public health campaign ensured that from 2016-17 local councils have to report how much of their public health budgets are spent on mental health.

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