Mainstream political parties in UK promise to address mental health crisis

Ahmed Kaballo
Press TV, Birmingham

The UK government has been widely criticized for not adequately funding the national health services and charities have argued that mental health doesn't receive its fair share of the already squeezed NHS budget.

In 2017 the British Medical Association surveyed Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service professionals and found that 91 percent believed their service was inadequately resourced, with 58 percent stating that reductions in funding had made them less able to do their job and many fear that the problem has worsened since then.

Suicide rates are currently rising in the UK with 6,507 suicides registered in the UK in 2018 and three-quarters of those being men. Men in the UK aged 20 to 49 are more likely to die from suicide than any other cause of death.

Six of England's leading mental health organizations joined forces to lay out what the next Government must do to improve the lives of people with mental health problems.

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