Policy paper

Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: government response

The government’s response to the work of the Mental Health Taskforce and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health report.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and NHS England
• Published: 9 January 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

The government’s response to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health

PDF, 272 KB, 29 pages

Details

This report sets out the government’s response to the work of the Mental Health Taskforce. The taskforce report to NHS England, the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, is an independent and far-reaching overview of what modern mental health services should be.

The government will accept the taskforce report’s recommendations in full. This report provides full responses to each of the 58 recommendations made to government.

All of the recommendations, whether for NHS England or for government, will be taken forward. NHS England’s response to their recommendations can be found in Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.

Published 9 January 2017