Mental Health Services: Weather

(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the winter resilience fund has been allocated to mental health trusts; and how that allocation was decided.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 18th December 2017

£337 million of additional funding to help trusts to increase capacity over winter was announced in the Autumn Budget. Of this, up to £18 million will be for mental health services, such as providing additional liaison mental health staff who can relieve the burden on stretched accident and emergency units by identifying patients in need of specialist treatment and referring them to more appropriate care more quickly.

NHS England have written to National Health Service trusts confirming their allocations. No decision has been made on winter funding for future years.

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