Mental Health Services

(asked on 6th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the projected real-terms change in mental health expenditure is for the next four financial years.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 13th September 2018

The information requested on National Health Service expenditure on mental health services for the previous five years is shown in the following table. It is not possible to provide information on expenditure on NHS-provided care alone, as clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) commission services from a range of providers and report on their overall spend.

Year

Mental Health Expenditure in nominal terms (£ billions)

2013-14

9.6

2014-15

10.08

2015-16

10.81

2016-17

11.6

2017-18

11.86 (planned)

Source: NHS England https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/

Information for expenditure made in 2018/19 will be published by NHS England in due course. For future years, the Department expects CCG spending to continue to rise at a higher rate than overall CCG allocations, in line with the Mental Health Investment Standard.

The NHS is currently working with health and care staff, patients and stakeholders to develop a long term plan for the NHS, which includes looking at how to build on the progress already made under the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, utilising the extra investment announced by the Prime Minister on 18 June 2018.

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