New Horizons
A shared vision for mental health
The Department of Health released its new 10-year strategy for mental health in England in December 2009. This is called New Horizons: a shared vision for mental health. This strategy focuses on two key areas:
- improving mental health services and outcomes for people who use those services
- improving and promoting better mental health amongst the whole population
You can download the full strategy, as well as related documents, here
What does this mean for staff working with mental health carers and service users?
This strategy is vitally important for anyone with experience of mental illness, as this sets the direction for mental health services for the next 10 years. This will affect:
- the support offered to service users,
- the support carers should be able to expect, and
- the direction, design and provision of mental health services across England
Our briefing on the final New Horizons strategy and its implications for carers is available here: 
Briefing on New Horizons Strategy (166 KB)
Other resources
Carers Trust (previously known as The Princess Royal Trust for Carers) also responded to New Horizons consultation, run before the publication of the final strategy, and developed a briefing on the consultation ‘vision’ document. These resources are below:
The Princess Royal Trust For Carers Response To New Horizons (88 KB) Trust Briefing on New Horizons Consultation (Short external version) (168 KB) Trust Briefing on New Horizons Consultation (Detailed external version) (184 KB)
