Mental health: priorities for change

December 2016

Mental Health

Country of origin: UK

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The document sets out 25 priorities for change. It details how changes in local service planning and delivery will make a difference to the lives of people with mental health problems in the next 2 or 3 years.

This supports the government’s mental health strategy ‘No Health without Mental Health’.

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