Scaling up in Europe: learning from diversity.

Over the past decade, attention has increasingly focused on the need to increase the capacity of mental health services. - (World Health Organization, 2001) set the agenda, advocating the development of community-based mental health services. The case for scaling up, inspired by the World Health Organization's vision of 'no health without mental health', was powerfully argued first in the series in 2007 (Prince , 2007) and again in the in 2011 (Eaton , 2011). The forthcoming Global Mental Health Action Plan, requested in a resolution by member states of the World Health Organization at the 2012 World Health Assembly, is a great opportunity to formulate objectives and targets for countries, and to analyse experiences from around the world. The forthcoming European Action Plan builds on this, customising actions for European countries.