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<p>We’re set to reach nearly £1 billion of additional funding invested by 2023/24,
compared to 2018/19, to transform community mental health services. In 2022/23, 288,000
people with severe mental illness, including bipolar disorder, accessed support through
new integrated models of community care.</p><p>The funding aims to increase access
to high quality care and transform care pathways for people with severe mental illness,
including bipolar disorder, through: greater integration of primary and community
services, to provide care in the community driven by the needs of individuals, rather
than based solely on diagnoses; physical health checks; and Individual Placement and
Support schemes, as well as Early Intervention in Psychosis services.</p><p>NHS England
is also working on implementing new access and waiting time standards for mental health
services, including one for adults with bi-polar disorder or similar, to start to
receive community-based mental health care within four weeks of referral.</p>
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