Abstract
The need for support for good mental health is enormous. General support for good mental health is needed for 100% of the population, and at all stages of life, from early childhood to end of life. Focused support is needed for the 17.6% of adults who have a mental disorder at any time, including those who also have a mental health problem amongst the 30% who report having a long-term condition of some kind. All sectors of society and all parts of the NHS need to play their part. Primary care cannot do this on its own. This paper describes how primary care practitioners can help stimulate such a grand alliance for health, by operating at four different levels – as individual practitioners, as organisations, as geographic clusters of organisations and as policy-makers.
Highlights
KEYWORDS Mental health; primary care; collaboration; Accountable care organisations. Why this matters to us London Journal of Primary Care (LJPC) publishes articles on the multi-dimensional aspects of primary care that make it so human and vibrant
Primary care can have an enhanced effect on the good mental health of the population by collaborating with others within local communities for health
In 2015, LJPC contributed to a Think Tank, in partnership with the mental health charity ETHICS and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to identify things that primary care can do to promote good mental health throughout the population [1]
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To cite this article: Sunjai Gupta, Rachel Jenkins, John Spicer, Marina Marks, Nigel Mathers, Lise Hertel, Laura Calamos Nasir, Fiona Wright, Baljeet Ruprah-Shah, Brian Fisher, David Morris, Kurt C.
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