Asked by: Steve McCabe (Labour - Birmingham, Selly Oak)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many veterans are on a waiting list for mental health treatment.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The information requested is not held centrally by NHS England. Veterans are not systematically identified in National Health Service systems, and therefore it is not possible to confirm how many veterans are on waiting lists for NHS services.
Asked by: Fabian Hamilton (Labour - Leeds North East)
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 reduce Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services waiting lists.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
We are committed to expanding and transforming National Health Service mental health care through the NHS Long Term Plan so more people, including children and young people, can be supported more quickly. The NHS forecasts that, between 2018/19 and 2023/24, spending on mental health services has increased by £4.7 billion in cash terms, compared to the target of £3.4 billion set out at the time of the NHS Long Term Plan. Nationally, overall spend on children and young people’s mental health services has increased from £841 million in 2019/20 to just over £1 billion in 2022/23. In the year to December 2023, over 750,000 children and young people aged under 18 years old were supported through NHS funded mental health services, a 31% increase since March 2021.
We are rolling out Mental Health Support Teams in schools and colleges in England, and as of May 2023, these teams cover 3.4 million pupils in England, or the equivalent to 35% of pupils. We expect this to increase to 44% by spring 2024, and we are extending coverage to 50% of pupils by the end of March 2025. We are also providing £8 million to fund 24 early support hubs across the country. This will improve access for children and young people to vital mental health support in the community, offering early interventions to improve wellbeing before their condition escalates further.
In addition, the NHS is working towards implementing five new waiting time standards for people requiring mental healthcare in both accident and emergency and in the community, to ensure timely access to the most appropriate, high-quality support. Four of these include children and young people.
Asked by: Lisa Cameron (Conservative - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of evidence-based digital mental health innovations on reducing waiting lists for child and adolescent services.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
To date, there has been no assessment made to determine the potential impact of evidence-based digital mental health innovations on reducing waiting lists for child and adolescent services. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has made recommendations on four products for self-help digital cogitative behavioural therapy technologies for children and young people with low mood or anxiety, through their Early Value Assessment process. Whilst there was no definitive determination on the impact to waiting lists, early evidence suggests that these types of interventions can improve access for patients and can supplement existing treatments whilst patients are waiting for further treatment.
May. 15 2024
Source Page: Patients to benefit from largest expansion of choice in a decadeFound: lists Patients could benefit from a wider range of healthcare services as the government announces
May. 15 2024
Source Page: Patients to benefit from largest expansion of choice in a decadeFound: lists Patients could benefit from a wider range of healthcare services as the government announces
Asked by: Golden, Maurice (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - North East Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS); what proportion of patients have waited more than a year on CAMHS waiting lists; what proportion of patients have started treatment within 10 weeks of referral, and how many CAMHS specialists have been available, in each NHS board in each of the last three years.
Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport
CAMHS Referrals
Information on patients referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is as follows. The data is not currently available for quarter October 2023 – December 2023. As such the following figures for 2023 only cover January – September. Information for quarter October – December 2023 is expected to be published on 5 March 2024.
2021 | 2022 | 2023 (Jan - Sep) | |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 2131 | 2620 | 2241 |
NHS Borders | 696 | 860 | 639 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 1261 | 1591 | 1185 |
NHS Fife | 3178 | 2910 | 2188 |
NHS Forth Valley | 1649 | 1453 | 1509 |
NHS Grampian | 3738 | 3738 | 2746 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 8299 | 8906 | 6390 |
NHS Highland | 1838 | 1678 | 1203 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 3826 | 3575 | 2517 |
NHS Lothian | 6989 | 7880 | 5636 |
NHS Orkney | 16 | 114 | 122 |
NHS Shetland | 134 | 152 | 95 |
NHS Tayside | 2076 | 2404 | 1719 |
NHS Western Isles | 164 | 158 | 95 |
One-Year Waiting Lists
We have seen transformational improvements in CAMHS waiting lists in the last year, and this has continued during the latest quarter. Children waiting over 52 weeks has decreased by 88% since end September 2022 – a reduction of 1,105 (down from 1,252 to 147).
Waiting list data for CAMHS is taken at the end of each month, and only contains data of the number of patients waiting within specific wait bands at that point. As such it is not possible to identify individual patients journey within the present Public Health Scotland publication PHS CAMHS Waiting Times . This publication provides data on waiting lists at the end of each month and for each health board.
Treatment Within 10-weeks of Referral
Patients starting treatment are divided into 4 wait bands 0-18 weeks, 19-35 weeks, 36-52 weeks and 53 weeks plus. Information therefore on patients starting treatment within 10 weeks is not available. Boards continue to respond to high demand for CAMHS, with statistics showing that 1 in 2 people referred to CAMHS start treatment within 10 weeks. Further data information on CAMHS patients starting treatment is publicly available via Public Health Scotland: PHS CAMHS Waiting Times .
CAMHS Specialists in Each Board
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) workforce data is publicly available in NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Turas Data Intelligence at: NHS Scotland Workforce Data . This provides data on staff joining and leaving rates by Health Board.
Sep. 03 2024
Source Page: Specialist Gender Services for Children and Young People – Progress ReportFound: Specialist Gender Services for Children and Young People – Progress Report
Sep. 12 2024
Source Page: Independent investigation of the NHS in EnglandFound: Data for 2016 -17 includes all secondary mental health services |476.5 Size of waiting lists for mental
Mentions:
1: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Although the Government is making progress in addressing the challenges of waiting lists, our health - Speech Link
2: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) The motion refers to“the importance of continuing to invest in mental health ... services”.I could almost - Speech Link
3: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) We now have one in seven Scots on waiting lists. - Speech Link
4: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) There are not 840,000 people on NHS waiting lists—that is misleading, as many people will be waiting - Speech Link
Found: King’s Speech 2024: Health and social care