05/17/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/17/2023 04:25
The call for evidence was originally intended to inform 2 individual plans:
The decision has since been taken to incorporate tackling mental ill health into a major conditions strategy instead of a stand-alone mental health strategy. This will ensure that mental ill health is considered alongside other physical health conditions and that the interactions between them are reflected in any resulting commitments. A call for evidence to inform the major conditions strategy was published on 17 May 2023.
In addition, it remains our intention to publish a new national suicide prevention strategy for England this year.
Thank you to all who responded to the mental health and wellbeing call for evidence. All responses are being considered to inform the development of both strategies.
Over 5,000 people got in touch to share their views and experiences through the online surveys. This included 4,559 individuals and 573 organisations - many of which were collated responses following group discussions with people with lived experience.
This discussion paper and call for evidence seek views on what we can do to improve everyone's mental health and wellbeing.
This consultation ran from
10am on 12 April 2022 to 11:45pm on 7 July 2022
The government is committed to improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes, particularly for people who experience worse outcomes than the general population. This is a key part of our commitment to 'level up', and address unequal outcomes and life chances across the country.
The government has committed to develop a new cross-government, 10-year plan for mental health and wellbeing for England to support this objective.
We want to ensure our new plan responds to the public's priorities and set out what we can all do as a whole society to drive better outcomes. We all have mental health, and all have a part to play in changing things for the better.
Therefore, we are launching a discussion paper and call for evidence to ask the public a range of questions to help develop the new plan.
This discussion paper is asking people:
We want to hear everyone's views on these questions. This includes:
This discussion paper is published by the Department of Health and Social Care, and has been informed by conversations with stakeholders, people with lived experience and government departments.
Sharing will open the page in a new tab
Added the call for evidence results.
Updated to reflect that new government strategies are affecting the feedback review.
Added detail of feedback received.
Updated to extend closing date to 7 July.
Added link to the easy read verison of the call for evidence.
First published.