Local community-led, user-led, and family-led organisations and small independent peer-support initiatives can provide support for people experiencing acute distress who are at risk of developing long-term conditions and those who do not trust or engage with mainstream mental health services. However, these supports should on complement, but not replace, mainstream mental health care.

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- Increased community monitoring and mental health screening
- facilitation of diverse and flexible access to mental health care
- anticipate and prepare for an increase in unmet mental health needs in vulnerable groups

Longer-term mental health needs for sustainable adaptations of mental health delivery

Moreno, C., Wykes, T., Galderisi, S., Nordentoft, M., Crossley, N., Jones, N., Cannon, M., Correll, C., Byrne, L., Carr, S., Chen, E., Gorwood, P., Johnson, S., Kärkkäinen, H., Krystal, J., Lee, J., Lieberman, J., López-Jaramillo, C., Männikkö, M., Phillips, M., Uchida, H., Vieta, E., Vita, A. and Arango, C., 2020. How mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Psychiatry. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30307-2

How mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Community monitoring and mental health screening could be implemented in selected groups, or digital health and digital phenotyping could be used to switch from individual-based approaches to population-wide screening. 

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