Mental Health Services: Young People
(asked on 19th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned on supporting young people moving from children's to adult's mental health services.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (now the CLAHRC East of England) has funded a range of research on this topic. Details are available on the CLAHRC’s website at:
Details of outputs from a project on this topic are available on the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies website at:
http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/hsdr/081613117
The NIHR is currently funding a £2 million programme of research on how health services can contribute most effectively to facilitating successful transition of young people with complex health needs from childhood to adulthood. This programme ends in April 2017.
The Department’s Policy Research Programme funds the Policy Research Unit in the Health of Children, Young People and Families at University College London. The unit is currently undertaking a research project to explore issues around expanding adolescent and young adult care and movement of transition point to 24 years of age.