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Mental Health Services: Eltham

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 60908, tabled on 11 October 2022

Question

Clive Efford
Labour
Eltham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help improve access to mental health services in Eltham constituency.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Dr Caroline Johnson
Conservative
Sleaford and North Hykeham
Commons

Answered on

26 October 2022

In September we announced ‘Our Plan for Patients’, which outlines how we will increase access to National Health Service mental health and eating disorder services, including in Eltham. Making it easier to access general practice through our ABCD priorities will expand this route as a gateway to mental health care.

Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are investing an additional £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to expand these services for adults, children and young people in England, including in Eltham.

We will invest approximately £1 billion in community mental health care for adults with severe mental illness, including eating disorders, by 2023/24 and an additional £53 million per year in children and young people's community eating disorder services to increase capacity in the 70 community eating disorder teams.

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