Theresa May promises mental health care overhaul Plans to "transform" attitudes to mental health, with a focus on children and young people, have been announced by Theresa May.
Additional training for teachers, an extra £15m for community care, and improved support in the workplace were among measures announced by the PM.
Mental health experts said more funding was needed to improve services.
Mrs May's speech comes as she outlined her plans to use the state to create a "shared society".
The government says one in four people has a mental disorder at some point in their life, with an annual cost of £105bn.
Figures show young people are affected disproportionately with over half of mental health problems starting by the age of 14 and 75% by 18.
The prime minister said mental health had been "dangerously disregarded" as secondary to physical health and changing that would go "right to the heart of our humanity". BBC News
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Additional training for teachers, an extra £15m for community care, and improved support in the workplace were among measures announced by the PM.
Mental health experts said more funding was needed to improve services.
Mrs May's speech comes as she outlined her plans to use the state to create a "shared society".
The government says one in four people has a mental disorder at some point in their life, with an annual cost of £105bn.
Figures show young people are affected disproportionately with over half of mental health problems starting by the age of 14 and 75% by 18.
The prime minister said mental health had been "dangerously disregarded" as secondary to physical health and changing that would go "right to the heart of our humanity". BBC News
See also:
- Press release: Prime Minister unveils plans to transform mental health support Department of Health
- Mental health problems are everyone’s problem: article by Theresa May Department of Health
- Statement to Parliament: Mental health and NHS performance Department of Health
- Funds for mental health must reach the front line if Prime Minister’s vision is to be realised The King's Fund
- Prime Minister unveils plans to 'transform' mental health support Mind
- Professor Sir Simon Wessley, President of the RCPsych responds to the PM's speech Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Urgent action needed to make aspirations for mental health care a reality, says RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners
- 'Nobody is immune' to mental health problems BBC News
- Theresa May vows to tackle the 'huge stigma' around poor mental health as part of her 'shared society' vision - and No 10 says it's NOT the same as David Cameron's 'big society' The Daily Mail
- Theresa May vows to make her Government a 'force for good' in new plan to tackle mental health The Daily Telegraph
- Theresa May is right to talk about mental health, both morally and economically The Daily Telegraph
- Every secondary school in Britain offered mental health training in bid to end 'stigma' and help children The Daily Telegraph
- Using children's mental health funding to plug NHS gaps is 'like theft', says former health minister The Independent
- 2 charts that show what has happened to mental health under the Conservatives The Independent
- Theresa May pledges to tackle 'stigma' of mental health but dismisses call for extra funding The Independent
- Theresa May's mental health pledge should start with fair funding The New Statesman
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