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<p>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 Hove. Making it easier to access general practice through our ABCD priorities will
expand this route as a gateway to mental health care.</p><p>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 Walsall South.</p><p>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.</p>
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