Health Management and Policy Alert

Exploring health and social care perspectives on the implementation of ‘Right Care, Right Person’, under the National Partnership Agreement

Partnership for Responsive Policy Analysis and Research (PREPARE) - 

‘Right Care, Right Person’ (RCRP) is a policy designed to end the inappropriate and avoidable involvement of police in responding to incidents involving people with mental health needs. This report from the University of York, York St John University and The King’s Fund explores the view of health and care staff on implementing the policy and the emerging impact on practice and care.

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Right Care, Right Person

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - 

Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) is an approach that is aimed at ensuring that people of all ages who have health and/or social care needs, are responded to by the right person, with the right skills, training, and experience to best meet their needs. Home Office and DHSC analysts evaluated the implementation of RCRP through a rapid process evaluation covering police, fire, health and social care services.

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Mental health inpatient settings: out of area placements

Health Services Safety Investigations Body -
This report finds that patients experience harm with the continued use of out of area placements for their mental health inpatient care. It explored what drives the need for out of area placements, and the impact on patients and families when they are placed far from their homes.

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Big mental health report 2024

Mind - 

This report brings together the latest evidence on the current state of the nation’s mental health and its mental health services, alongside insights from people with lived experience of mental health difficulties. It also takes a close look at how financial difficulties are impacting people’s mental health, the impact of stigma and discrimination, and the experiences of people living with severe mental illness.

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Mental health bill 2024: what you need to know

NHS Confederation -
The measures introduced in the 2024 mental health bill aim to give people greater control over their treatment and help ensure they receive the dignity and respect they deserve. This briefing gives a summary and analysis of the government manifesto commitment to modernise mental health legislation to give patients greater choice.

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Mental Health Bill: memorandum on European Convention on Human Rights

Department of Health and Social Care -
This memorandum addresses issues arising under the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to the Mental Health Bill 2025, as introduced on 6 November 2024.

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Mental Health Bill 2025: fact sheet

Department of Health and Social Care - 
This document provides more information on the Mental Health Bill, which was introduced in the House of Lords on 6 November 2024.

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Costs and activity for mental health services provided by NHS mental health trusts in England: sociodemographic and regional trends

University of York. Centre for Health Economics - 

This study, supported by the Health Foundation, showed that between 2016 and 2019 total costs of secondary mental health services increased by 13 per cent, outpacing the average inflation rate of 2.3 per cent. The number of individuals needing to use NHS secondary mental health services also rose by 8 per cent. The highest costs were seen among working-age men and residents from England’s most deprived areas.

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Mental health inpatient settings: creating conditions for the delivery of safe and therapeutic care to adults

Health Services Safety Investigations Body - 

In June 2023 the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced that HSSIB would undertake a series of investigations focused on mental health inpatient settings. This report describes the findings of the first of those investigations, exploring the risks to patient safety associated with the workforce and working conditions in acute mental health inpatient settings for adults.

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A space to be me: Young Changemakers tackling racial inequalities in Black young people’s mental health

Centre for Mental Health - 

The Young Changemakers programme was a groundbreaking three-year programme, funded by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery and Comic Relief, supporting young Black people to develop their own social action projects to address the links between racial injustice and poor mental health. This report consolidates three years of data and insights from the programme, incorporating findings from both a comprehensive evaluation and primary research
conducted with young Black people in 2023.

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