{"id":152,"date":"2017-09-01T06:51:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T06:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/?p=152"},"modified":"2017-09-01T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T06:51:01","slug":"bringing-together-physical-and-mental-health-within-primary-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/2017\/09\/01\/bringing-together-physical-and-mental-health-within-primary-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing together physical and mental health within primary care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing fragmentation between different parts of the health system is a key priority for the National Health Service (NHS) and for health systems internationally, if they are to meet the challenges they face. One of the deepest fault-lines in the NHS is the disconnection of mental healthcare from the rest of the system; this has to be addressed as part of efforts to improve integrated care and make care more person centred.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jrs.sagepub.com\/content\/109\/10\/364.full\">Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine<\/a>, Preety Das, Chris Naylor and I discuss this issue. Developing integrated approaches towards mental and physical health is increasingly becoming a policy priority; the report of the independent mental health taskforce to the NHS identified this as one of the top three priorities for the next five years. There has been recent investment in integrating mental and physical health within secondary care, for example, liaison psychiatry in acute general hospitals and perinatal mental healthcare. While such investment is also crucial, we believe that there is great unrealised opportunity for integration in developing new approaches to mental health within primary care.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jrs.sagepub.com\/content\/109\/10\/364.full\">Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing fragmentation between different parts of the health system is a key priority for the National Health Service (NHS) and for health systems internationally, if they are to meet the challenges they face. 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