Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 20th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) in-patient and (b) community mental health services for children and young people in (i) Coventry and (ii) the West Midlands.
Information about performance against key mental health access and waiting times measures for clinical commissioning groups (CCG) in Coventry and the West Midlands is published in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard. The most recent information available for measures for mental health services for children and young people for Coventry and Rugby CCG is shown in the following table. The Dashboard gives more information on how to interpret these statistics, providing trend data as well as indicators showing what constitutes a positive measure.
Coventry and Rugby CCG data for Q1-Q2 2017/18
Indicator* | Reporting period | Indicator value |
Percentage of children and young people with eating disorders seen within one week (urgent) | Q3 2016/17 - Q2 2017/18 | 50.0% |
Percentage of children and young people with eating disorders seen within four weeks (routine) | Q3 2016/17 - Q2 2017/18 | 67.4% |
Number of bed days for children and young people aged under 18 in child and adolescent mental health services tier 4 wards | Q1-Q2 2017/18 | 3,104 |
Number of admissions of children and young people aged under 18 in child and adolescent mental health services tier 4 wards | Q1-Q2 2017/18 | 26 |
Children and young people aged mental health planned CCG spend - excluding learning disabilities and eating disorders | 2017/18 | £4.1 million |
Children and young people mental health planned CCG spend - eating disorders | 2017/18 | £723,000 |
Source: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspects both community and inpatient mental health services. Its reports and ratings provide information that helps the Department and public understand the quality of care. Its reports are published on the CQC’s website at the following link:
https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications