Mental Health Services
(asked on 12th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the availability of talking therapies in the NHS.
This question was answered on 25th February 2020
The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (2016) set out plans for expanding Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services so at least 1.5 million people can access care each year by 2020/21. The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) commits to continuing increasing access to IAPT so at least 1.9 million people can access IAPT services by 2023/24.