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SUBJECT: Support a Strategy for Scotland's Mental Health
I am contacting you as one of your constituents and a supporter of SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health), to ask you to support a wide-ranging new Mental Health Strategy for Scotland: 2011-15. This week (10-16 October) is Mental Health Awareness Week, offering numerous opportunities to highlight the importance of mental health and wellbeing, both nationally and in our local area. Mental health plays a vital part in Scottish society and has a considerable influence on all aspects of Government. The new Mental Health Strategy, in consultation until January 2012, offers a rare opportunity for the Parliament to make a long-lasting impact on Scotland's mental health. The urgency for an effective new strategy for mental health is clear: the social and economic costs of mental health problems in Scotland are £10.7 billion per year; almost equal to the entire NHS budget. Poor mental health and well-being lies at the heart of some of the most persistent problems that Scotland faces in health, crime, unemployment and deprivation. Without good mental health, Government strategies on these issues simply cannot succeed. Whatever issues you are passionate about, your support for mental health will matter. SAMH has published ten steps to a Strategy for Mental Health in a document entitled The Foundation Stone. The ten steps are: Target resources at needs, not budgets Increase professional and public understanding of mental health Spend to save: Don't let short-termism take over Fully implement and improve the Mental Health Act Build mental health into every NHS department Make services more responsive Improve the criminal justice system Commit funding to suicide prevention Take action on alcohol Stop the spiral of poor mental health You can learn more about the ten steps by visiting www.samh.org.uk or by downloading the full version of The Foundation Stone: A Strategy for Scotland's Mental Health. Thank you for your time, and I hope you will agree to support SAMH's recommendations for the Scotland's new Mental Health Strategy. Yours faithfully,
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