A report published today by the Health and Social Care Committee’s Expert Panel says the Government’s progress in delivering its policy commitments on a wide range of mental health services in England ‘requires improvement’.
Among the Expert Panel’s six core members is Professor Stephen Peckham, the Director of the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) at Kent.
The Panel’s report, the second to be produced by the Expert Panel, rates the Government’s progress on nine commitments in four policy areas. The areas evaluated are: workforce; children and young people’s mental health; adult common mental illness; and adult severe mental Illness. The Panel gives further CQC-style ratings against nine individual commitments in the policy areas.
The Expert Panel, chaired by Professor Dame Jane Dacre, consists of members with recognised expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods, and policy evaluation. It is complemented by experts with a working knowledge and experience of frontline delivery of NHS mental services, clinical research and policy development and implementation.
Read the Expert Panel’s report on the UK Parliament website
Professor Peckham was appointed to the Health and Social Care Committee’s Expert Panel in January 2021. The panel supports Parliament in holding the UK Government to account against its pledges on health and social care. He has over 20 years of policy analysis and health services research experience.
Professor Peckham has particular interests in the way services are organised and delivered as well as in the development and implementation of health policy. He also looks at the use of evidence in policy and public health and ethical implications of public health policies. He is Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a Senior Investigator with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and Director of NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex. He is also Director of the Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Systems and Commissioning (PRUComm). PRUComm is a collaborative research unit with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Manchester.
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