Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish the preliminary results from the four week waiting time pilot for adult community mental health services.

NHS England and NHS Improvement is testing four-week waiting time standards as part of the delivery of new models of integrated primary and community mental health care. Twelve early implementer sites were selected in 2019-20 to pilot the new models over 2 years and test four-week waiting times as part of this transformation.

Timescales for publication of this early implementer learning is under review as the pandemic significantly impacted the timeline for these early implementer sites. However testing has now resumed in all sites and learning is being collated at a national level. These insights will be fed into the national CRS programme.