Authors: Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone
In October 2018, the world’s first global ministerial mental health summit will be held in London. A statement from the UK government’s Department of Health and Social Care tells us that ministers, leading academics, policymakers and patients from more than 30 countries will be invited to attend, and anticipates many positive outcomes. It is hoped that the global summit “can play a central role in changing the story for millions of people around the world experiencing mental illness” and that the summit will be “the next step on a journey to a new level of cooperation between nations so that we can improve people’s access to evidence-based services and bear down on stigma and other factors that are exacerbating this crisis.”
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