Increases the share of NHS funding for mental health significantly over the next two parliaments.
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Takes a holistic approach to the social factors and root causes of poor mental health and wellbeing, ensuring that people have access to a range of support services both professional and community-led, ending the reliance on medicalisation.
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Ensure that community-based first responders throughout our country are trained to understand trauma, mental health, and other issues, so that they can deliver high-quality support when and where they are needed.
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Establishes a cross-government and public-service strategy which champions mental health services, including non-medical interventions, and which identifies the resources needed to address failures in the system.
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A Mental Health minister that has the clout to ensure Government is considering consequences of its actions with every decisions. A minister able to lead and shake the entire strategy up as it is not just a NHS issue.
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Improve access and choice in psychological therapies underpinned with greater investment and more targeted support for those who have suffered most through the pandemic due to inequalities.
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Increase funding for tiered bereavement support specifically designed to support people who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 or have been bereaved during the pandemic restrictions.