Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 9
9
Fragmented mental health system requires sustained investment and cultural shift for transformative community care.
Conclusion
Delivering real change and achieving parity of esteem in mental health care requires dismantling the current fragmented system and reimagining service design and delivery. The 24/7 Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre 75 pilots seem to be genuinely transformative. The experience from Trieste, and early evidence from Barnsley Street, show that radically different, individualised, community-based care gets results. We also heard that the model shows possible cost savings for the wider system. Realising large- scale reform will depend on sustained and ringfenced investment to enable stretched Integrated Care Boards to take the action needed. This must be matched by a profound cultural shift across the system from clinicians to commissioners to government. (Conclusion, Paragraph 91)