Mental Health and Primary Care

Why your NHS Mental Health Trust should provide an independent in house Welfare Rights Service.

DECEMBER 9, 2013

tags: All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health, Centre for Mental Health, Citizens Advice, debt, Jed Boardman, joint strategic needs assessment, jsna, mental health, Norman Lamb, psychosis,Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation NHS Trust, sheffield mental health CAB, Welfare Rights

Every year approximately 70,000 people with a Psychosis are supported by the NHS. In most cases while they receive good consistent support from health and social care services the same cannot be said about access to support to address their socio-economic circumstances. Yet these can have a huge impact on their wellbeing and the likelihood of their being admitted to costly NHS services./.../