It may well feel like a while since New Horizons was launched (just a bit over 3 months) but a lot seems to have happened in that time; in particular the implications of the financial constraints on the economy. This has increased the pace at which we address productivity issues but also when New Horizons was launched, it very much built on the prevention message and stressed the importance of employment for people with mental health problems.

We decided that it might be helpful to examine New Horizons and number of other documents that arrived around the same time and had inter-related messages.

We hope this will help more people access the important visions and evidence detailed is a short summary of 5 papers. In addition we have provided a summary of each of the papers.

In this way people can make the most of the evidence and key policy factors that are conveyed in these seminal papers.

We welcome feedback on the value of this summary paper.

Dean Repper

Director of EMDC, Associate Director NHS East Midlands

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