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Major investment needed to overhaul inconsistent mental health crisis care

Mental health crisis care saves lives. It’s an essential part of the mental health system. But too many people struggle to get support that meets their needs.

Rising levels of need for emergency mental health care, coupled with short-staffing and dilapidated buildings in inpatient services, are placing current systems under major pressure. And too often, people’s experience of inpatient care can be coercive and re-traumatising.

Our new briefing ([link removed]) examines research from the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental Health about the most effective ways of supporting people in a mental health crisis. Crisis and acute mental health care sets out the evidence about community-based alternatives to hospital care (such as crisis houses, day units, home treatment teams and crisis cafes), which enable people to get support closer to home. But it finds that the provision of alternatives to hospital care is inconsistent, and what’s commissioned doesn’t correspond with the available evidence of what’s effective.
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Crisis and inpatient mental health services require a major overhaul to provide care which is timely, compassionate and effective.

At a time of limited budgets and rising need, we urge the Government to invest in evidence-backed interventions to better support people in a mental health crisis. Before embarking on plans to build new ‘mental health emergency departments’, it must ensure that investment is used wisely to provide the right help in the right places.

Our research is carving a path to a mentally healthier future. But we can’t get there without your support.

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Together we can bring an end to mental health injustice.
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