Background

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“Mental health improvement is now seen as an area of innovation and as fostering new possibilities for change.”

A Review of Scotland’s National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing

Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland (TAMFS) is the Scottish Government’s current policy document for mental health improvement in Scotland.

TAMFS is not the beginning of work surrounding mental health improvement in Scotland: there has been a commitment to mental health improvement for many years. This section aims to give the history of previous work and to highlight other policies that are important to mental health improvement.

In this section

  1. History of the National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing
  2. Policies, strategies, and frameworks