Mental Health Policy Group 2011 - 2012

The programme director is Professor Lord Richard Layard.
Room R453,
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7281,
Email: r.layard@lse.ac.uk

The group was re-established in June 2011 to examine the question “Does the NHS give sufficient priority to mental health?” The group aims to produce a substantial report by July 2012.

Members

Professor Lord Richard Layard, (Chair), Director, Well-Being Programe, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Professor Sube Banerjee, Professor of Mental Health and Ageing, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London; Clinical Director MHOA, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Head, Centre for Innovation and Evaluation in Mental Health

Stuart Bell, Chief Executive, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Professor David Clark, Professor of Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Dr Steve Field, Chair, NHS Future Forum; former chairman of RCGP

Professor Martin Knapp, Professor of Social Policy, Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit and Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research, LSE; Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health at King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry

Baroness Meacher, Chair, City and East London NHS Mental Health Trust

Chris Naylor, Fellow, Health Policy, The King's Fund

Mike Parsonage, Chief Economist, Centre for Mental Health

Professor Stephen Scott, Professor of Child Health and Behaviour, King's College London; Director, National Academy for Parenting Research

Professor John Strang, Head of Addictions Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

Professor Graham Thornicroft, Professor of Community Psychiatry; Head of Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

Professor Simon Wessely, Head, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

Presentations

How the funding system penalises mental health (Stuart Bell)

Dementia -The great health and social care challenge for the 21st century (Sube Banerjee)

MUS and LTC (Simon Wessely)

Investing in services for children (Stephen Scott)

Mental health and physical health : a comparative analysis of costs, quality of service and cost-effectiveness (Michael Parsonage and Chris Naylor)

Mental Health Policy Group 2005 - 2006