Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Recovered appeal: land to the north of Cambridge North Station, Cambridge (ref: 3315611 - 23 April 2024)Found: All other environ mental information submitted in connection with the appeal, including that arising
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) The Prime Minister stated that people with mental illness would be better helped by treatment and services - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) How much is down to lack of mental health services? - Speech Link
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
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 - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
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.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) health services before the advertised gains are eroded? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) I will read just one: “A claimant with severe mental health problems whose main carer had recently passed - Speech Link
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to bring waiting times for mental health patients in-line with waiting times for physical health patients.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We remain committed to achieving parity between mental and physical health services, as outlined in the parity of esteem definition set out in a letter to the Public Accounts Committee in February 2024.
Given funding is important for reaching parity of esteem, we are making good progress with investment in National Health Service mental health services. Between 2018/19 and 2023/24, NHS spending on mental health has increased by £4.7 billion in cash terms, as compared to the target of £3.4 billion in cash terms set out at the time of the Long-Term Plan. For 2024/25, mental health spend is forecast to continue to grow, and will make up 9.01% of all recurrent NHS spending.
In February 2022, NHS England published the outcomes of its consultation on the potential to introduce five new access and waiting time standards for mental health services, as part of its clinically led review of NHS Access Standards. These are: for an urgent referral to a community based mental health crisis service, a patient should be seen within 24 hours of referral, across all ages; for a very urgent referral to a community based mental health crisis service, a patient should be seen within four hours of referral, for all age groups; patients referred from accident and emergency should be seen face to face within one hour by a mental health liaison or children and young people’s equivalent service; children, young people and their families and carers presenting to community-based mental health services, should start to receive care within four weeks of referral; and adults and older adults presenting to community-based mental health services should start to receive help within four weeks of referral.
Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) Public satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest point; waiting lists are at their highest level; waits - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) Fourteen years ago, the NHS was in rude health, with new hospitals, new services, and waiting times that - Speech Link
3: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I emphasise mental health here, in particular the role of the digital world in provoking a mental health - Speech Link
4: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) If not, we shall never clear the backlog or reduce waiting lists. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baker, Claire (Lab - Mid Scotland and Fife) To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time is for a determination on adult and child - Speech Link
2: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) I recognise that the amount of time taken waiting on the telephone was causing concern. - Speech Link
3: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) supporting information, to make suggestions about the types of information—for example, prescription lists—that - Speech Link
4: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) such as education, childcare and health and social care. - Speech Link
5: Rowley, Alex (Lab - Mid Scotland and Fife) to accessing employment and education, disrupting social support networks and negatively affecting mental - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None We are seeing anecdotal evidence of a huge impact on candidates’ mental health. - Speech Link
2: None We see it as a real opportunity—it is there, waiting, and we could apply it here, too. - Speech Link
3: None road, you could trial assisted voter registration.With assisted voter registration, you get public services - Speech Link
4: None It is reasonable to have that as a provision, but you are right about the complication of regional lists - Speech Link
Found: This includes expanding the Individual Placement and Support scheme that supports people with severe mental