Mental health strategy: third annual progress report

Pandemic Prioritisation 

Following the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, we took the decision to prioritise our work around a series of key themes. These reflected the immediate demands of our emergency pandemic response:

• Mental Health Services
• Vulnerable Groups
• Restricted Patients
• Additional Mental Health Support
• Mental Health Law
• Workforce Wellbeing

Work continued on a limited number of essential pre-existing commitments. The Mental Health Strategy actions that we continued to prioritise were:

• Action 11: Distress Brief Interventions.
• Action 15: The recruitment of 800 additional mental health workers.
• Action 19: Publication of protocol for admissions of young people to adult wards.
• Action 22: Support for young people with eating disorders.
• Action 26: Early intervention in psychosis.

An update on the progress towards each of these continuing priority actions is included at Annex A of this report.