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1728584

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce the waiting lists for NHS mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Paula Barker
	uin	5129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2024 answer text <p>People with mental health issues across the country are not getting the support or care they deserve. This is why we will fix the broken system to ensure that mental health is given the same attention and focus as physical health, so that people can be confident in accessing high quality mental health support when they need it.</p><p>We will recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers to reduce delays and provide faster treatment, which will also help ease pressure on hospitals.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 16/09/2024 09:32:58 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1727616

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for neurodevelopmental services.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	uin	4432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2024 answer text <p>The Department is currently considering the next steps to improve diagnostic assessments and support for autistic people and people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It is the responsibility of the integrated care boards (ICBs) to make available appropriate provision to meet the health and care needs of their local population, including autism and ADHD services, in line with relevant National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines.</p><p>On 5 April 2023, NHS England published a national framework and operational guidance to help ICBs and the National Health Service to deliver improved outcomes for children, young people, and adults referred to an autism assessment service. The guidance also sets out what support should be available before an assessment and what support should follow a recent diagnosis of autism. In 2024/25, £4.3 million is available nationally to improve services for autistic children and young people, including autism assessment services.</p><p>In respect of ADHD, we are supporting a cross-sector taskforce that NHS England has launched into challenges in ADHD service provision, to help provide a joined-up approach in response to concerns around rising demand.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock grouped question UIN 4428 4429 4430 question first answered 12/09/2024 09:10:48 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1726251

	registered interest
	date	30/08/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on (a) implementing and (b) training additional mental health staff to help relieve waiting lists.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Dr Beccy Cooper
	uin	3614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2024 answer text <p>We know that the National Health Service has been facing chronic workforce shortages for a number of years and, while there has been growth in the mental health workforce over recent years, more is needed.</p><p>That is why, as part of our mission to build an NHS that is fit for the future and is there when people need it, we will recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers to reduce waiting times and provide faster treatment. We recognise that bringing in the staff needed will take time. We are working to develop a plan to deliver this expansion of the mental health workforce, including where they should be deployed to achieve maximum effect.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 10/09/2024 13:28:01 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	5307

1701492

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to bring waiting times for mental health patients in-line with waiting times for physical health patients.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	22119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>We remain committed to achieving parity between mental and physical health services, as outlined in the parity of esteem definition set out in a letter to the Public Accounts Committee in February 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Given funding is important for reaching parity of esteem, we are making good progress with investment in National Health Service mental health services. Between 2018/19 and 2023/24, NHS spending on mental health has increased by £4.7 billion in cash terms, as compared to the target of £3.4 billion in cash terms set out at the time of the Long-Term Plan. For 2024/25, mental health spend is forecast to continue to grow, and will make up 9.01% of all recurrent NHS spending.</p><p> </p><p>In February 2022, NHS England published the outcomes of its consultation on the potential to introduce five new access and waiting time standards for mental health services, as part of its clinically led review of NHS Access Standards. These are: for an urgent referral to a community based mental health crisis service, a patient should be seen within 24 hours of referral, across all ages; for a very urgent referral to a community based mental health crisis service, a patient should be seen within four hours of referral, for all age groups; patients referred from accident and emergency should be seen face to face within one hour by a mental health liaison or children and young people’s equivalent service; children, young people and their families and carers presenting to community-based mental health services, should start to receive care within four weeks of referral; and adults and older adults presenting to community-based mental health services should start to receive help within four weeks of referral.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 19/04/2024 08:24:33 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1701061

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of average waiting times for receiving NHS mental health (a) treatment and (b) other support services on the (i) wellbeing and (ii) employment of patients requiring those services.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	21800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>While no such assessments have been made, through the NHS Long Term Plan the Government is providing record levels of investment and increasing the mental health workforce, to expand and transform National Health Service mental health services in England, helping to reduce waiting times. The NHS is also working towards implementing new waiting time measures for people requiring mental healthcare in both accident and emergency and in the community, to increase transparency, drive improvements in the quality of data, promote timely access to the most appropriate and high-quality support, and drive accountability in local systems.</p><p>The 2023 Spring Budget contained a package of over £400 million to support the long-term sick and disabled in remaining in or entering employment. This included approximately £75 million for the expansion of the Individual Placement and Support scheme, to help people with severe mental illness into employment. At the 2023 Autumn Statement, we announced a further £795 million of funding to increase the number of sessions per course of Talking Therapies treatment and broaden access, leading to an expected additional 384,000 people completing a course of treatment by 2028/29. It will also fund an additional 100,000 Individual Placement and Support places over five years, which will help people with severe mental illness gain and retain paid employment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 21801 question first answered 18/04/2024 10:02:21 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1701063

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the impact of trends in the number of patients waiting for mental health treatment on the economy.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	21801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>While no such assessments have been made, through the NHS Long Term Plan the Government is providing record levels of investment and increasing the mental health workforce, to expand and transform National Health Service mental health services in England, helping to reduce waiting times. The NHS is also working towards implementing new waiting time measures for people requiring mental healthcare in both accident and emergency and in the community, to increase transparency, drive improvements in the quality of data, promote timely access to the most appropriate and high-quality support, and drive accountability in local systems.</p><p>The 2023 Spring Budget contained a package of over £400 million to support the long-term sick and disabled in remaining in or entering employment. This included approximately £75 million for the expansion of the Individual Placement and Support scheme, to help people with severe mental illness into employment. At the 2023 Autumn Statement, we announced a further £795 million of funding to increase the number of sessions per course of Talking Therapies treatment and broaden access, leading to an expected additional 384,000 people completing a course of treatment by 2028/29. It will also fund an additional 100,000 Individual Placement and Support places over five years, which will help people with severe mental illness gain and retain paid employment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 21800 question first answered 18/04/2024 10:02:21 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1695436

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	18267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>More and more people are getting support with their mental health thanks to investments made through the NHS Long Term Plan. Unfortunately, demand has risen as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in the cost of living on people’s mental health continues to be felt. This means that some people are facing waiting times that are much longer than we would like.</p><p>We are providing record levels of investment and increasing the mental health workforce to expand and transform National Health Service mental health services, to expand access and reduce waiting times. Between 2018/19 and 2023/24, NHS spending on mental health has increased by £4.6 billion in cash terms, as compared to the target of £3.4 billion in cash terms set out at the time of the Long Term Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan committed to grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 staff between 2019/20 and 2023/24. We are making positive progress, delivering two-thirds of this, or 17,000 additional staff, by September 2023, with further significant growth expected by the end of this financial year.</p><p>The NHS is also working towards implementing five new waiting time measures for people requiring mental healthcare in both accident and emergency and in the community, for both adults, and children and young people. This includes working towards improving the quality of data that we have on waiting times for people requiring mental healthcare, in both accident and emergency and in the community. NHS England began publishing this new data in 2023 to improve transparency and drive local accountability.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/03/2024 10:53:19 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1685439

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of young people in South Cumbria identified as highly complex or at high risk to self or others are on the waiting list for (a) cognitive behavioural therapy, (b) psychology and (c) family therapy as of 29 January 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	11742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>This information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 06/02/2024 11:20:02 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1685653

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of young people who were referred to child and adolescent mental health services waited (a) two weeks, (b) one month, (c) three months, (d) six months and (e) longer than six months for an assessment in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
	tabling member printed	Simon Fell
	uin	11871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of referrals of children and young people aged between zero and 17 years old in England in 2021/22, as well as the time waiting between referral and their second contact for the timescales available:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number waiting between zero and four weeks</p></td><td><p>137,943</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage waiting between zero and four weeks</p></td><td><p>18.80%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of waiting between four and 12 weeks</p></td><td><p>62,037</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage waiting between four and 12 weeks</p></td><td><p>8.50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number waiting over 12 weeks</p></td><td><p>38,855</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage waiting over 12 weeks</p></td><td><p>5.30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total number</p></td><td><p>733,756</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS England</p><p><sup> </sup></p><p>Note: These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/02/2024 17:49:09 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4744 label Biography information for Simon Fell

1683227

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2024 to Question 8607 on Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists, if she will provide this data by NHS provider.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	10356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the attached tables.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/01/2024 12:35:36 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield attachment 1 file name PQ10356.xlsx title Attachment
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare