Newbury
https://www.youngkind.org.ukI’m not ashamed to say that I’m currently undergoing treatment for PTSD, Depression and Anxiety. I have been suffering since the beginning of June when I found that my best friend had attempted suicide - hence the PTSD. I spent 3 weeks in a mental health hospital and tried to end my life 3 times, I’m calling on you today to ask for your support. Underfunded and squeezed to breaking point, the NHS is struggling to provide mental health care to everyone that needs it.
Children and Youth
In the UK mental health conditions make up around 28 per cent of the total burden of disease, the largest single health issue, but they receive just 13 per cent of the total NHS budget. At the same time, the budget for adult social care, which provides ongoing mental health support, has been cut in real terms by 13.5 per cent in England over the last eight years. There is a need for national reform, which must include a diversion of spend, particularly to address the needs of the more than 420,000 children and young people that are deprived of the urgent mental health care they so desperately need each year. But you can’t rob Peter to pay Paul. What’s needed therefore is a new approach that brings in partnership to form a public / private solution. A solution that drives out fundamental cost in ways that free up monies to be spent more effectively in areas including mental health. To divert spend from safeguarding and bed occupancy to prevention and efficient treatment.Youngkind, a charity established to deliver positive change to young people suffering with mental health issues, believes that it can help reduce the cost of NHS admissions. Today that cost which averages £429 per day per patient, could treat one person in need of professional intervention for 8 weeks. Safeguarding versus a real solution. But we understand that moving monies around in the NHS won’t be easy, not least because there is so much demand in all areas. We want to therefore help meet a significant part of that funding gap too through external sources.We see three distinct phases. Stage one is to build a digital experience that makes finding the appropriate care easy, fast and completely unique to the UK through an app and a web site that the target demographics will embrace and understand. This platform will help unlock the vast network of private care specialists that are inefficiently used and difficult to find today. We’ll have video’s, and guides, search based upon location, availability, specialisation and so on, Q&As and case studies. It will be a portal to help access this community. All we’ll need is a referral and we can save a life.Children spend 9000 days waiting to be discharged from hospital a year due to the lack of subsequent support in the community. That equates to a yearly cost of £3.8 million, funds that can be used to successfully treat over 5,000 children and young people without regression, without a wait for outpatient services and without a demand to travel hundreds of miles for care. With more than 6000 suicides per year between referral and treatment, how can we do less?In stage 2 we want to ‘negotiate’ lower fees for the services delivered. By enabling those in need to efficiently find those that can help, soaking up all that unused capacity, we believe that we can negotiate a 20 – 30% “discount” passed to those referred through Youngkind. Stage 3 will then be to raise external monies to deliver those services at no charge to those that do not have the capacity to pay, based upon a pledge that monies will be repaid to whatever level and rate achievable when the young person is better, is back at work and in the community.We need support to help drive our efforts. Your background suggests that this topic might well be close to your heart and I’d welcome the opportunity to introduce Youngkind to you more fully and to discuss how you might be able to support us, whether that be through direction, introduction, publicity, or helping to provide funding assistance.Right now we need appropriate trustees on our board, we need connections to run pilots and we need appropriate sponsorship. Can you help us?
We're looking for some PR assistance to spread the word about our cause. We need recognition and awareness to reach our fundraising target and to start getting people to talk about the need for our services.
Posted on Sep 22, 2018