Mental Health

Priorities for 2009-2010

The Team Priorities

Areas for the service improvement and development in the East Midlands are:

• Delivering Race Equality
• Children and Young People with Mental Health Problems (CAMHs)
• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
• Dementia (East Midlands Dementia Strategy)
• Mental Health Legislation
• Personality Disorder
• Suicide Prevention
• Offender Health
• Support to the NSR emerging priorities for mental health

Five Themes

For each of the teams priority areas the following themes will be embedded for action – both for commissions and providers:

• Joint commissioning of a high quality and standard
• Integrating services
• Empowering patients
• Promoting mental health
• Early detection and intervention