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<p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone who has a mental health need
is able to access timely treatment based on their clinical need.</p><p>We have made
ambitious commitments in the NHS Long Term Plan to make mental health services available
to an extra 380,000 adults and 345,000 children and young people aged 0-25 by 2023/24.</p><p>The
NHS Long Term Plan commits the National Health Service to test and roll out comprehensive
waiting time standards for adults and children over the next decade. This builds on
the already established waiting time standards for children and young people’s eating
disorder services, early intervention for psychosis that covers all ages and adult
improving access to psychological therapies services which are all being met or on
track for delivery by 2020/21 in line with previous commitments.</p><p>Specific waiting
times targets for emergency mental health services will take effect from 2020.</p><p>The
ongoing NHS clinical review of standards has reported its interim findings which set
out a number of proposed future waiting time standards for testing in mental health.
These include:</p><p>- assessment within 24 hours for urgent community referrals;</p><p>-
seen by liaison psychiatry in accident and emergency within 1 hour from referral;</p><p>-
four week waiting times for children and young people to access specialist mental
health services; and</p><p>- four week waiting times for adults to community mental
health teams.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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