Mental Health Services: Finance

(asked on 19th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase funding for community mental health provision to prevent patients being put in out of area placements.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 26th October 2021

The NHS Long Term Plan is supported by an additional £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to expand community mental health support to avoid people going into crisis and the need for an inpatient admission wherever possible. While no formal assessment has been made of the impact of out of area placements, where inpatient stays are required, they should be short, close to home in a high quality, safe and therapeutic service.

The Mental Health Recovery Action Plan includes an additional £110 million in 2021/22 to expand adult community mental health services including psychological therapies, implementing the community mental health framework, investment in crisis services and suicide prevention programmes. We are also investing £87 million to provide enhanced discharge from inpatient mental health care, offering people who are well enough to leave hospital with additional support to help them recover in the community.

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