Mental Health Services

Department of Health written question – answered at on 23 November 2017.

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Photo of Luciana Berger Luciana Berger Labour/Co-operative, Liverpool, Wavertree

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statement by Simon Stevens in his speech to the NHS providers conference in Birmingham on 8 November 2017 that it is going to be increasingly hard to expand mental health services.

Photo of Jackie Doyle-Price Jackie Doyle-Price The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

The Department remains committed to delivering the recommendations set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health published in 2016 supported by the document Stepping Forward to 2020/21: Mental Health Workforce Plan for England, for ensuring that 1 million more people with mental health problems are accessing high quality care.

NHS England has recognised that an additional £1 billion investment will be required by 2020/21 to support the plan. This will build on the £280 million investment each year already committed to drive improvements in children and young people’s mental health, and perinatal care.

We have already seen a real term increase in clinical commissioning groups spending from 2013/14 to 2016/17 of £1.6 billion and we estimate around 1,400 more people are already accessing mental health services every day compared to 2010.

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