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<p>Spending on mental health is estimated to have increased by £302 million in 2014/15,
with total mental health spending rising from £11.362 billion in 2013/14 to £11.664
billion planned in 2014/15, an increase of 0.6% in real terms. In the planning requirements
for 2015/16, commissioners were required to invest additionally in mental health in
line with their increase in allocation. The total planned additional spend is £376
million, an increase of 4.5%.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From March this year NHS
England has led the Mental Health Taskforce. The Taskforce brings together health
and care leaders and experts in the field, including people using services, to lead
a programme of work to create a mental health Five Year Forward View for the National
Health Service in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Mental Health Taskforce
will:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- oversee the publication of a new ‘life course’
national mental health strategy published in the summer of 2015, which builds on recent
policy;</p><p> </p><p>- address equality and human rights commitments relating to
the mental health of our population;</p><p> </p><p>- take a collective approach to
cross-system leadership in development of the strategy and propose robust approaches
to implementation following publication;</p><p> </p><p>- make comprehensive recommendations
on the mechanisms and data requirements to implement the mental health strategy and
to monitor delivery and outcomes of it;</p><p> </p><p>- ensure that priorities, costs
and benefits within the strategy are assessed;</p><p> </p><p>- identify strategic
and directional risks and issues, and work to resolve these; and</p><p> </p><p>- ensure
that people with personal experience of mental health problems, their families and
carers, and wider stakeholders are engaged appropriately and consistently in the delivery,
monitoring and governance of the strategy.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>
</p><p>This will inform considerations for mental health funding in the next spending
review.</p><p> </p>
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