Mental Health Services

(asked on 14th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent evaluation he has conducted of secondary care psychological therapy services in the NHS.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 20th November 2017

NHS England has undertaken evaluations of the six demonstrator sites providing Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services for people with severe mental illness, and in 2015 jointly with the McPin Foundation published an evaluation of the service user experience of those who had been treated in the demonstrator sites. The report is available at the following link:

http://mcpin.org/a-service-user-evaluation-of-iapt-for-people-with-a-severe-mental-illness/

As recommended in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, NHS England has committed to increase access to psychological therapies for people with severe mental illnesses – namely psychosis, bipolar disorder and personality disorders.

NHS England has commissioned the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health to develop a pathway for community mental health services beginning in 2017/18, which will map the care and treatment that should be commissioned and delivered across primary and secondary care. This includes a specific focus on increasing access to psychological therapies for people with severe mental illnesses under the care of secondary care community mental health services.

In addition, NHS England has also commissioned the NHS Benchmarking Network to undertake a stocktake of community mental health services in 2017/18, including a stocktake of the capacity within community mental health teams to deliver psychological therapies for people with severe mental illness.

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