Mental Health Services: Per Capita Costs

(asked on 21st April 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent in (a) cash and (b) real terms on mental health services per head of population in each of the last five years.


This question was answered on 26th April 2017

Spending on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) was reported separately in the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard from 2016/17 and is not available for previous years in this format.

The Dashboard reported that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on CAMHS cash spend per head in 2016/17 plans across CCGs was an average of £46.71. This figure does not include spend on Specialised CAMHS services.

Figures from NHS England’s Five Year Forward View Dashboard report that clinical commissioning groups cash spend on mental health per head of the population in £164.68 in 2016/17 and 2015/16 was £159.58.

Spending on per head of the population for previous years is not available in this format.

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