Mental Health Services: Finance

(asked on 21st January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the fair distribution of the recently announced additional £2 billion further funding for mental health; and whether his Department has plans to ensure that Southport benefits from such funding.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 29th January 2019

The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January, confirms that mental health will receive a growing share of the National Health Service budget, worth at least a further £2.3 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24.

The NHS Long Term Plan commitment to mental health is supported by draft clinical commissioning group allocations which were published on 10 January and include an updated mental health and learning disabilities formula. The Mental Health Investment Standard also requires commissioners to further increase their investment in mental health.

NHS England will ensure fair distribution of funding. Additional details, based on local health system five year plans, will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn.

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