Asked by: Golden, Maurice (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - North East Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been invested in clearing any long waiting times for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), and how any such targeted support has affected waiting times, in each NHS board in each of the last three years.
Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport
The NHS Recovery Plan 2021-2026 refers to the support for CAMHS included in the £120m Mental Health Recovery and Renewal Fund. In total, £34m of the Fund was invested in 2021/22 to improve access to and quality of CAMHS services.
This fund was superseded in 2022-23 by the Mental Health Outcomes Framework, which bundled funding to Boards for improvements to CAMHS, psychological therapies, eating disorder care, primary care and children and young people’s neurodevelopmental services, as well as ongoing innovation and service reform.
The intention behind bundling was to allow Boards flexibility to align spending to local priorities, based on this it is not possible to separate out the specific CAMHS funding provided to each Board from 2022-23 onwards. We have allocated £48.6 million of supplementary funding to Boards so far this year via the Mental Health Outcomes Framework. This is in addition to £36.7 million allocated to Health Boards via the Outcomes Framework in 2022-23; and to the total package of core funding that Health Boards receive.
So far 13 out of 14 CAMHS services have effectively eliminated their long wait lists (where 3% or fewer of all waits are over 1 year). Full data information on for each Board on CAMHS patients starting treatment is publicly available via Public Health Scotland: PHS CAMHS Waiting Times .
Report May. 21 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: services to help make things better.
Sep. 11 2024
Source Page: PM: ‘Major surgery, not sticking plaster solutions' needed to rebuild NHSFound: lists and a deterioration in the nation’s underlying health, identifying serious and widespread problems
Sep. 11 2024
Source Page: PM: ‘Major surgery, not sticking plaster solutions' needed to rebuild NHSFound: lists and a deterioration in the nation’s underlying health, identifying serious and widespread problems
Mentions:
1: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) What assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to NHS mental health services. - Speech Link
2: Tim Roca (Lab - Macclesfield) What assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to NHS mental health services. - Speech Link
3: Tim Roca (Lab - Macclesfield) While the NHS has made some high-level progress, the figures for those waiting for mental health elective - Speech Link
4: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) Since 2018, £4.7 billion extra has gone into NHS mental health services. - Speech Link
5: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) issue as part of our work to reduce waiting lists. - Speech Link
6: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberafan Maesteg) We have a plan for improving mental health services, including 8,500 more mental health workers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) decade, with waiting lists falling for six months on the bounce. - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) He promised to cut waiting lists; they are up to 7.5 million. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Waiting lists, dental services, mental health services, clinical trials, workforce morale, cancer care - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Ministers in Scotland and Wales to help them with their waiting lists. - Speech Link
Correspondence May. 22 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care on Patient choice expansion pilots 15.04.24 Correspondence
Mentions:
1: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) Most criminally, there will be a £19 million cut to mental health budgets. - Speech Link
2: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) has been waiting for knee surgery for two years, while promises on mental health waits ring hollow when - Speech Link
3: McMillan, Stuart (SNP - Greenock and Inverclyde) across a range of mental health services and treatments. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: is much higher. 3.The lack of mental health support, such as lengthy NHS waiting lists for counselling
Mentions:
1: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) Happy St George’s day, Mr Speaker.Cutting waiting lists is one of the Prime Minister’s top priorities - Speech Link
2: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) to cut waiting lists is in tatters. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) I am pleased that NHS England is reviewing mental health services for all staff, to ensure that all staff - Speech Link
4: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) NHS England is reviewing mental health services for all staff who need them, to ensure that they can - Speech Link
5: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Friend rightly flags the excellent work going on to improve access to mental health services across the - Speech Link