A study by the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation found that those with mental ill health have almost five times more emergency hospital admissions than those without. And yet the vast majority of these emergency admissions were for physical health problems.
Research by the King's Fund, published in November 2015, found that over 40% of mental health trusts had their funding cut despite rising demands on their services. To reduce costs, trusts are trying to shift patients away from acute services to "recovery-based care and self-management programs". Many of these though do not have the resources to get up and running and are not properly evaluated.
HMHB's Ajani program is very much aimed at getting back to being life ready and job ready (if applicable). Building confidence, getting people more fitter and healthier, can bring amazing results. We are very open to working alongside the NHS, proving success through proper evaluation and growing.
Without suitable funding, not just for us but for the whole mental health field, the outlook for mental health services, and the people who rely on them, looks bleak in our view. The challenge of improving the physical health of those with mental illness needs urgent attention.
According to statistics, people with serious mental ill health die on average 10 to 17 years earlier. For people with psychosis, the under 75 mortality rate is more than three times higher than the general population. Forty six per cent of people with mental health illness also have a chronic physical illness.
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