Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's proposals on page 4 of its Green Paper on children and young people's mental health, published on 4 December 2017, whether the four week waiting time target for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services will relate to the time taken for (a) referral to assessment or (b) referral to treatment.
This question was answered on 19th December 2017
The proposal of trialling a four week waiting time, as set out within Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper, will relate to the time taken from referral to beginning treatment.