Mental Health Services

(asked on 11th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 30 January 2020 to Question 7600 on Mental Health Services and the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service Specifications published in December 2019, what mechanisms his Department plans to use to ensure that (a) Primary Care Networks, (b) mental health services and (c) other community services work in partnership.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 24th February 2020

The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement are committed to dissolving the boundaries between primary medical care, mental health services and community health services so that they work together better for the benefits of patients. To deliver the requirements of the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service, Primary Care Networks will be required to work with their community services providers, community mental health providers and community pharmacies, and to record in their network agreement how they will deliver services in an integrated way.

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