Mental disorder accounts for a large proportion of UK disease burden. Effective public mental health interventions exist to treat mental disorder, prevent associated impacts, prevent mental disorder from arising, and promote mental wellbeing and resilience. However, only a minority of those with mental disorder, except psychosis in the UK, receive treatment with far less coverage of interventions to prevent associated impacts. Furthermore, there is negligible coverage of interventions to prevent mental disorder or promote mental wellbeing and resilience. This implementation gap results in a population scale preventable suffering, broad impacts and associated economic costs.
In March 2022, the Royal College of Psychiatrists launched its Public Mental Health Implementation Centre to support improved coverage of public mental health interventions. This symposium will outline the case for action, associated opportunities and an update of the work of the Public Mental Health Implementation Centre.
This session aims to help you:
- Understand why a population approach to mental health is vital.
- Understand the key principles of public mental health.
- Understand current and future public mental health work including by the RCPsych’s Public Mental Health Implementation Centre.
Chair: Trudi Seneviratne, Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom
Jonathan Campion, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom
Kevin Fenton, Faculty of Public Health, London, United Kingdom
Lade Smith, Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom
