Editorial

Abstract

This should be an appropriate time of year in which to indulge in a little daydreaming, or ‘blue skies thinking’ to use that dreadful buzz-phrase beloved of Downing Street advisers. (Happily, the sunny weather is playing its part in encouraging idle reveries as 1 write these words, though whether the current hot spell will endure until you read them seems highly unlikely!) My thoughts about ‘blue skies thinking’ were prompted by a recent report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) (see News, page 4). In Mental Health in the Mainstream, ippr research fellow Jennifer Rankin sets out her vision of how mental health services might be reconfigured in 20 years’ time. Her recommendations draw on findings from research conducted earlier this year among service users and carers by the charity Rethink, which supported the project.