Many health and wellbeing boards giving ‘little priority’ to mental health

Mental health is a standalone priority for care in less than half of the strategies drawn up by health and wellbeing boards to meet local health needs, a report has found.

While 91% of the strategies made some mention of mental health, only 46% identified it as a dedicated priority, an analysis by the Centre for Mental Health found. Almost one in ten (9%) strategies did not include mental health at all.

Health and wellbeing boards bring together local authorities, NHS commissioners and other groups to set local health priorities through joint health and wellbeing strategies.

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