The NHS
Urging the government to act
Fixing our mental health system
In our 2024 'Right Treatment, Right Time' report, we found that mental health services are struggling to provide timely and consistent care, with people falling into crisis and attempting suicide as they wait for treatment.
On the cusp of the general election, we outlined what the incoming government needed to do to fix our mental health system.
The foundations of our policy and influencing work on the NHS
Building communities that care
Our research found people with severe mental illness want wider support in their community for things such as supported housing, employment, and bespoke care.
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Right treatment, right time
Back in 2018, our original landmark research report found that too many people were not getting timely support they needed from community mental health services.
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Fair funding for mental health
In 2019, we worked in partnership with the Institute for Public Policy Research to calculate how much funding was needed to scale up access to and improve quality of care.
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Our guides to transforming community mental health services
Transforming and improving community mental health services is not easy, but our experience demonstrates that it is possible with the right approach.
Based on existing practice examples from our work across England in early implementer sites, these two guides set out ten steps towards achieving the positive ambitions of NHS England’s Community Mental Health Framework.
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- Thinking Differently - The first five steps
- Continuing your journey of community mental health transformation - Steps six to 10
The Somerset model
The county of Somerset has established an ambitious, new model of joined-up community mental health care designed to best serve people living with mental illness. Rethink Mental Illness partnered the NHS Trust, local authorities and voluntary and community organisations to make it happen.