Prevention

Mental health statistics: prevention and early intervention

Preventing mental health problems could be extremely effective for society's wellbeing, but also financially. However, more money needs to be invested into researching the most effective prevention methods.

Mental Health Foundation welcomes new prevention resources

30 August 2017,

We welcome Public Health England's new suite of prevention resources.

Mental Health Foundation welcomes launch of Thrive LDN

4 July 2017,

Today the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan launches Thrive LDN, a city-wide movement to improve the mental health of all Londoners.

Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: what progress has been made?

21 February 2017,

A year after the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health was published by the Mental Health Taskforce, Jenny Edwards assesses the progress on the valuable recommendations in the report.

Preventing mental ill health: time to take action

26 July 2016, Isabella Goldie

If we are to rise to the challenge of reducing the prevalence of mental health problems, we need to be stepping in at particular pressure points, says Isabella Goldie.

Mental health and prevention: taking local action for better mental health

26 July 2016

Our report sets out ways to tackle the rapidly growing level of mental ill health.

Taking Local Action for Better Mental Health

26 July 2016,

Today, the Mental Health Foundation publishes Mental health and prevention: taking local action for better mental health. The report was commissioned by Public Health England and sets out evidence of the ways to tackle one of the great challenges of our time; the rapidly growing level of mental ill...

Prevention must be front and centre of the mental health transformation agenda

19 July 2016,

Jenny Edwards is disappointed about the lack of focus on prevention in the mental health transformation agenda.

Mental health: a national asset for Scotland

14 April 2016, Chris O'Sullivan

Chris O'Sullivan looks ahead to the Scottish Parliament elections, detailing five policy commitments that we would like to see from the next Scottish government.

Mental Health Foundation supports the call for a Mental Health Champion for Northern Ireland “prevention should be their top priority”

24 February 2016,

Today, Northern Ireland hosts its first mental health summit organised by Action for Mental Health . It will reinforce calls for a Mental Health Champion to “defend the rights and interests of people living with mental illness”. Dr Iris Elliott, Head of Policy and Research at the Mental Health...