Transcript Mental Health - Social Firms UK

‘The crisis that we face’
Mental Health and Social Enterprise
Solutions - London, 23 March 2007
Dr Marcus Roberts
Head of Policy and Parliamentary Unit
Mind
Everyone’s issue - ‘1 in 4’
• around 300 people out of 1,000 will
experience mental health problems every
year in Britain
• 230 will visit a GP and 102 will be diagnosed
with a mental health problem
• 24 will be referred to a psychiatric service
and 6 will become hospital inpatients.
Mind Statistics 1: How common is mental distress
Everyone’s issue - ‘1 in 4’
‘Crippling Depression and chronic anxiety
are the biggest causes of misery in Britain
today … which shame keeps out of sight …
According to the respected Psychiatric
Morbidity Survey, one in six of us would be
diagnosed as having depression or chronic
anxiety disorder, which means one family in
three is affected’.
LSE Depression Report - June 2006
Everyone’s issue - ‘1 in 4’
• Depression affects about 121 million
people world wide
• By 2020 it is projected to reach
second place in the ranking of world
health problems
• It is already in second place for the 1544 year age group.
World Health Organisation
It’s very expensive - the
cost
England - £77 billion annual cost
- £12.5 billion in care and health costs
- £23.1 billion in lost output to economy
- £41.8 billion in human costs
Scotland: £8.6 billion (9% GDP) - human
cost £4.7 billion
Figures from Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
It’s very expensive economic cost
- Mental ill health costs the EU 3% to 4%
of GDP, mainly lost productivity (EU
Green Paper).
- Depression report - 40 per cent of IB
claimants on IB because of mental health
problems, and this is a secondary factor
for a further 10 per cent
‘Conditionality’ not the
solution
OECD says that UK has one of the most
stringent disability benefit gateways in the
world
IB fraud rate is less than 0.5 per cent
Access to employment is a
key issue
SEU (2004) - fewer than four out of ten
employers would recruit someone with
a mental health problem.
CIPD - more than 60 per cent of 755
employers disregarded applications
from people with a history of mental
health problems.
Workplace mental health is
an issue
- HSE found that 20 per cent of respondents
suffered from workplace stress at levels
described as ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ stressful.
- Mental health problems account for the loss of
over 91 million days each year.
- 45 per cent of employers who responded to a
Shaw Trust survey thought no staff would be
suffering from mental ill-health.
Other issues
- Treatment - quality, availability, choice
- Rights and discrimination
- Social inclusion and marginalisation
- Environmental matters
- Way we live now
Mind contact
www.mind.org.uk
MindinfoLine 0845 7660 163
Marcus Roberts [email protected]
020 8215 2279