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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 Bristol West. Ensuring easier access to general practice will expand this route
to access mental health services.</p><p>Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are investing
an additional £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to expand NHS mental health and eating
disorder services for adults, children and young people in England, including in Bristol
West. 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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