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1035021

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	to ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Right treatment right time, published by Rethink Mental Illness, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the conclusion that the average waiting time of assessment by patients with severe mental illness is 14 weeks.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the average waiting time of assessment for patients with severe mental illness is not collected.</p><p> </p><p>The waiting time standard for people with first episode psychosis is for 60% to start treatment in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service within two weeks of referral. In 2017/18 this standard was exceeded, with 76.2% of people accessing services within two weeks in November 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:44:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

714153

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health on ensuring that NHS providers fulfil requirements under the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	69150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office and Department of Health work closely, on an ongoing basis, on a wide range of issues related to mental health and policing including those covered by the Concordat.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Counter Extremism and the Minister for Public Health and Innovation alternately chair the National Steering Group on the Crisis Care Concordat which monitors work across the country on local responses, including of NHS providers, to those in mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recently allocated some £15m in funding to 88 projects across 40 Crisis Care Concordat partnerships to improve places of safety provision and ensure that people in mental health crisis are not detained in police stations. A further £15m of funding has been announced to continue this work. Both departments are engaged in preparations for forthcoming changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 as contained in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and which are designed to further improve the response to those in mental health crisis.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 31/03/2017 13:08:30 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

714633

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent progress with the Crisis Care Concordat following the withdrawal of Mind's secretarial support.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	69423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office together with their colleagues in the Department of Health have provided support mental health professionals and the police in England and Wales to enable them to work together to co-ordinate the right responses to people experiencing a mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p>Between October 2013 and May 2015 the Department of Health funded Street Triage pilots in nine areas. NHS England subsequently published an evaluation into its effectiveness in November 2015. Street Triage schemes now operate in over 25 police force areas for which funding is provided by local partners for example Police and Crime Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups. The Home Office has awarded £155,220 through the Police Innovation Fund to support a North Wales Police Mental Health Triage project. North Wales Police will evaluate the work following the end of the Home Office funding period on 31 March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Police forces may apply for future funding for Street Triage through the Police Transformation Fund.</p><p> </p><p>For those arrested in England on suspicion of committing an offence and taken to police custody Liaison and Diversion schemes, commissioned by NHS England to a national model, operate in over 50% of police forces areas and will be rolled out nationally by 2020/21. These schemes aim to identify, assess and refer people with mental health and other complex needs into appropriate support and treatment and where appropriate may influence sentencing options. The Department of Health has funded an evaluation into the effectiveness of Liaison and Diversion which is due to report in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Crisis Care Concordat partnerships have been established in England and Wales since 2015 and play a pivotal role in coordinating these approaches and improving mental health crisis care pathways. Whilst financial support for Mind’s secretariat has been withdrawn, we remain committed to ensuring the Crisis Care Concordat continues to progress and a national steering group is taking this forward.</p><p> </p><p>To assess the adequacy of the legislative framework a joint review of policing powers within the Mental Health Act 1983 was conducted by the Home Office and Department of Health during 2014. Following this review both the Home Office and Department of Health are engaged in preparations for forthcoming changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 as contained in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and which are designed to further improve the response to those in mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To support these legislative provisions we have recently allocated some £15m in funding to 88 projects across 40 Crisis Care Concordat partnerships to improve places of safety provision and ensure that people in mental health crisis are not detained in police stations. A further £15m of funding has been announced to continue this work.</p><p> </p><p>These steps have been successful in reducing the use of cells and National Police Chiefs Council data highlighted a 54% reduction in the use of cells as places of safety from 2014/15 (4,537 occasions) - 2015/16 (2,100 occasions).</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 69422 69425 69451 69452 question first answered 04/04/2017 10:23:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

658582

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2016
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what comparative assessment he has made of (a) the level of psychiatric morbidity and suicide rate and (b) expenditure on mental health in Northern Ireland and other nations of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
	tabling member printed	Helen Whately
	uin	57554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The issue of mental health and expenditure on mental health in Northern Ireland is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p>The Office of National Statistics does however, release regular statistics on the rate of deaths by suicide across the United Kingdom. The statistics can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases</a></p><p>Officials from the Department of Health engage with their counterparts in the Devolved Administrations on these statistics, and they discuss whether there are areas for learning on tackling mental health problems.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 21/12/2016 12:59:15 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

694231

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the press release of 9 January 2017, Prime Minister unveils plans to transform mental health support, when his Department plans to make digitally assisted mental health therapy available.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	65523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>Digitally-assisted mental health therapies are already available in parts of the National Health Service. Work is currently in progress to have National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved digitally-assisted therapies available across the NHS by 2019/20. NHS England is currently working, with the help of NICE, to scope, develop and test these products over 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 01/03/2017 14:28:41 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

670247

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the press release issued by the Prime Minister on 8 January 2017, where the 88 new places of safety being created for people experiencing mental health illness are.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	59212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>A list of local areas who will receive funding under the improving health based places of safety capital scheme is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/566778/approved_projects.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/566778/approved_projects.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 12/01/2017 16:23:02 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

670244

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's press release on mental health service reform of 9 January 2017, in which countries has digitally assisted therapy already proved successful.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	59217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>Evidence from programmes in Australia and Sweden have informed the Digital Mental Health Strategy that will be implemented as part of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme will run a pilot of digitally-assisted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in up to 30 clinical commissioning groups to establish an evidence base in England, and will continue to learn from other successful examples both here and abroad.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 12/01/2017 16:25:05 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

804561

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the NHS England document, Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View published in March 2017, what recent progress the NHS has made on meeting the objective for an additional 60,000 people to access (a) psychological and (b) talking therapies for common mental health conditions during 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	118763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Progress against the targets for mental health services improvement, set out within the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, are tracked on the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p><p> </p><p>This shows that the National Health Service is on track to meet the targets for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT).</p><p> </p><p>The latest ‘Psychological Therapies, Annual report on the use of IAPT services - England, 2016/17’, which was published on 30 November, can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30157" target="_blank">http://www.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30157</a></p><p> </p><p>This shows that in 2016/17, 965,379 people entered treatment, resulting in an annualised access rate of 15.79%, exceeding the 15% target. Monthly data published by NHS Digital, up to and including August 2017, show that for 2017/18, 415,437 people have so far entered treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Complete data for 2017/18 will not be available until early 2018/19.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/12/2017 17:50:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

705630

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the NHS Digital data for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies for November 2016, what information his Department holds on why (a) people who were referred for treatment did not enter treatment and (b) people who entered treatment did not finish the course.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	65624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>NHS England does not collect information centrally on the reasons why people who are referred for treatment do not enter treatment, or may not complete a course of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) treatment. However, NHS England has sought views from the national IAPT clinical advisor and the IAPT team (including the intensive support team) as to why people may drop out after assessment. NHS England use this information as part of their ongoing programme of continuous improvement of IAPT services.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 07/03/2017 10:48:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

789274

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, what progress has been made on the development and publication of a comprehensive set of mental health care pathways; and what steps he is taking to ensure that such pathways include clear access and waiting time standards, quality standards, workforce requirements, and guidance for commissioners.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	113064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Significant progress has been made in relation to the development of a comprehensive set of mental health care pathways, including the publication to date of pathways for early intervention in psychosis, community services for eating disorders in children and young people and urgent and emergency mental health liaison.</p><p> </p><p>The pathways are intended to provide clear guidance to both commissioners and providers in relation to the commissioning and implementation of services to improve access and outcomes for people with mental health problems, and contain a set of quality benchmarks against which local systems can understand their progress in implementing them. The introduction of new access and waiting time standards would only be made in areas where it was clear that the funding and workforce were in place to support this.</p><p> </p><p>An updated timetable for the publication and delivery of the mental health pathways was provided within ‘Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health’.</p><p> </p><p>The pathways for crisis care, perinatal mental health, children and young people's mental health, and acute mental health care have been developed in draft and will be published in due course. Whilst much of the content has been finalised, it is still being reviewed to ensure that it is in line with the wider Five Year Forward View strategy and that it provides the most helpful guidance to both commissioners and providers within the current context.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 113127 113128 question first answered 20/11/2017 16:11:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb