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Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): England

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  • Emily Hewlett

    (OECD)

  • Kierran Horner

    (Department of Health)

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As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries. These profiles, entitled ‘Mental Health Analysis Profiles’ (MHAPs), will be able to inform discussion and reflection and provide an introduction to and a synthesised account of mental health in a given country. Each MHAP follows the same template, and whilst the MHAPs are stand-alone profiles, loose cross-country comparison using the MHAPs is possible and encouraged. The English mental health care system can be regarded as one of the clearest examples of a “community care” approach to mental illness, with relatively well established links and networks between mental health care providers and social care providers. Strong links between social support services, for example employment and housing services, and appropriate psychological and medical interventions, have been a priority. Recent developments in the system include the introduction of a programme of talking therapies, IAPT, rolled-out nation-wide, a commitment to introduce waiting times standards for mental health services, and early in 2014 a mental health action plan, Closing the gap: priorities for essential change, which sets out 25 areas for urgent action. Lancée dans le cadre d’un projet plus vaste consacré à la santé mentale dans les pays de l'OCDE, la série de profils « Santé mentale : profils d’analyse » (Mental Health Analysis Profiles - MHAP) vise à décrire de manière simple et détaillée les systèmes de santé mentale des pays de l'OCDE. Ces profils, qui étayeront les examens et les réflexions qui seront menés, feront le point sur la situation d’un pays donné dans le domaine de la santé mentale. Les profils MHAP sont indépendants les uns des autres mais suivent le même modèle : il est donc possible, et recommandé, de les utiliser pour procéder à des comparaisons entre pays. Le système de santé mentale anglais peut être vu comme un des exemples typiques de système ayant une approche de "soins communautaires" en ce qui concerne les maladies mentales, avec des liens et réseaux relativement bien établis entre les intervenants de soins de santé mentale et les services sociaux. La priorité a été mise sur la nécessité d'avoir des liens étroits entre les services d'aide sociale, par exemple l'emploi et le logement, et les interventions médicales et psychologiques. De récentes évolutions dans ce système sont à noter, telles que l'introduction d'un programme de thérapie parlante, l'IAPT, déployé sur tout le territoire, un engagement pour l'introduction de limites de temps d'attente pour les services de santé mentale, et, au début de 2014, un plan d'action de santé mentale appelé en anglais Closing the gap: priorities for essential change, définissant 25 domaines d'action urgente.

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  • Emily Hewlett & Kierran Horner, 2015. "Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): England," OECD Health Working Papers 81, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:elsaad:81-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jrxr7vj1g9v-en
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