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<p><strong></strong></p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health is
committed to ensuring that patients with mental health conditions can receive treatment
as close as possible to where they live. Inappropriate out of area placements are
unacceptable and the Government has set a target to eliminate these in non-specialist,
acute mental health care by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>To support the delivery of this
ambition, in October 2016 the Government put in place the first data collection to
secure much-needed national transparency on the number of patients that are sent out
of their local area for acute inpatient treatment.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is using
this new data to support local health systems to develop and deliver trajectories
to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements.</p><p> </p><p>More than £400 million
has been made available for investment in mental health crisis resolution home treatment
teams over the next four years, enabling them to provide 24/7 crisis response and
intensive home treatment as a genuine alternative to admission where appropriate.</p><p>
</p><p>Shared learning and best-practice advice on reducing out of area placements
through improved system capacity management will be included in acute care commissioning
guidance.</p>
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