4 February 2009

MENTAL HEALTH

Living well with dementia: A National Dementia Strategy (3rd February 2009)
This strategy provides a strategic framework within which local services can:

  • deliver quality improvements to dementia services and address health inequalities relating to dementia;
  • provide advice and guidance and support for health and social care commissioners and providers in the planning, development and monitoring of services; and
  • provide a guide to the content of high-quality services for dementia.
Strategy

Adult Psychiatric Morbidity in England, 2007 results of a household survey (27th January 2009)
Nearly one in four people (23.0%) in England had at least one psychiatric disorder in 2007 according to a survey report published today by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care and conducted by NatCen (National Centre for Social Research) in collaboration with the University of Leicester. 7.2% of people had two or more disorders.

The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) series is the only source of data on the national prevalence of both treated and untreated psychiatric disorder in the English general population.
Report

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