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Written Question
Mental Health Services
Wednesday 16th October 2024

Asked by: Perran Moon (Labour - Camborne and Redruth)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to NHS mental health services.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Around one million people are waiting to access mental health services, and vacancy rates for mental health trusts are around 10% - the highest of any NHS sector.

This government will fix our broken NHS so people can be confident of accessing high quality mental health support when needed.

This includes recruiting 8,500 more mental health workers, introducing specialist mental health professionals in every school, rolling out Young Futures hubs in every community and modernising the Mental Health Act.