Beacon UK

Overview

Stanton was involved with Beacon Health Strategies, now Beacon Health Options a behavioral health company based in Boston, Massachusetts established in 1996 by Elizabeth Pattullo developing publicly funded mental health managed care programs. The company does not directly deliver mental health care, but attempts to act as an “integrator”, coordinating mental health services from different health and social care providers to ensure care effectively meets the needs of each person with mental health conditions.

Stanton was named as one of the Health Service Journal's most inspirational women in health and one of their Top Innovators. She is a former adviser to Sir Liam Donaldson and co-founded Diagnosis, a clinical leadership social enterprise. From 2010 to 2011, she had a Harkness Fellowship. She is an advocate of outcome measurement in healthcare. She is quoted by the NHS Confederation as saying: “Measuring care and outcomes in mental health is often put in the ‘too difficult’ box yet capturing data on whether people have homes to live in, jobs to go to, appropriate medication, financial stability and social interactions are possible for other conditions so why not for people with mental health problems too.” Beacon recommends treatment at home through teams of doctors, nurses and social workers, not through hospital admission.