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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 Plymouth Sutton and Devonport. Making it easier to access general practice through
our ABCD priorities will expand this route as a gateway to mental health care.</p><p>
</p><p>Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are investing an additional £2.3 billion
a year by 2023/24 to expand these services for adults, children and young people in
England, including in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.</p><p> </p><p>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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