Choosing mental health: a response to the government white paper

Abstract

Choosing Health is the first government public health white paper since Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation, published in 1999. It aims to make the NHS ‘a health service, not a sickness service,’ and is strongly influenced by the Wanless reports. This paper presents a critical review of the main elements of the white paper that relate to mental health, and sets out the actions that policy makers and service delivery organisations need to take to build genuinely mental health promoting public services within a mentally healthy society.

Citation

Friedli, L. and McCulloch, A. (2005), "Choosing mental health: a response to the government white paper", Journal of Public Mental Health, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465729200500009