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1035021

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	to ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Right treatment right time, published by Rethink Mental Illness, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the conclusion that the average waiting time of assessment by patients with severe mental illness is 14 weeks.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the average waiting time of assessment for patients with severe mental illness is not collected.</p><p> </p><p>The waiting time standard for people with first episode psychosis is for 60% to start treatment in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service within two weeks of referral. In 2017/18 this standard was exceeded, with 76.2% of people accessing services within two weeks in November 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:44:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1010616

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the November 2018 report by Rethink entitled Right treatment, right time, whether he is taking steps to lower the average 14-week wait for assessment and 19-week wait for treatment for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, eating disorders and other severe mental illnesses.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	193434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>Right treatment, right time, by Rethink Mental Illness, highlights challenges in mental health services. The Government recognises that we need to go further in improving mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health contains specific steps for reducing waiting times for psychosis and eating disorders. By 2020/21, at least 60% of people with first episode psychosis should start treatment with a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended package of care, via a specialist Early Intervention in Psychosis service, within two weeks of referral. For eating disorders, we have targets for ensuring that 95% of children in need receive treatment within one week for urgent cases, and four weeks for routine cases. Figures published on the Five Year Forward View dashboard show that these targets have been met or are on track to be met by the end of 2020/21. The dashboard is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:15:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010614

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the November 2018 report by Rethink entitled Right treatment, right time, whether he is taking steps to ensure that NHS England works with NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to develop the Mental Health Dashboard further to include operational data for people treated in secondary and community care under a mental health trust.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	193432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard brings together key data from across mental health services to measure the performance of the National Health Service in delivering our plans as set out in the Mental Health Five Year Forward View. Indicators within the dashboard are intended to provide a high level overview of how the NHS is performing, alongside detail on how mental health services are funded and delivered.</p><p> </p><p>The content of the dashboard was recently reviewed to ensure that the measures within the dashboard are sufficiently robust to provide an accurate picture of mental health delivery across services and regions. NHS England is working with NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to improve operational data for people treated in secondary and community care and these measures will be included in the dashboard as soon as data quality demonstrates that it is appropriate to do so.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:10:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

904027

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Five Year Forward View, published in October 2014, what steps he is taking to ensure Clinical Commissioning Groups meet the expansion plans for national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	143716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>For people living with depression, anxiety or other common mental health conditions, talking to a mental health profession can be a real lifeline and help them to manage their conditions. That is why the Government and NHS England have committed to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) to reach 25% (1.5 million) of people with common mental health conditions by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Planning Guidance sets out clear expectations for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to meet the IAPT expansion targets outlined in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health as part of annual planning and all CCGs have had to submit their expected trajectories towards those targets.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Planning Guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/planning-guidance-18-19.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/planning-guidance-18-19.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Assurance of delivery is gained from regional scrutiny of CCG plans against core IAPT standards. Quarterly deep-dives with regions and the national Senior Responsible Owner are used to inform our shared view of progress and support implementation. This process also helps to identify concerns and enables NHS England to understand where support is needed from the national team, and support plans to mitigate any emerging risks for the region.</p><p> </p><p>Additional funding has also been built into CCG 2018/19 baseline allocations to support the expansion of services outlined in the planning guidance and the specific trajectories set for 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/05/2018 10:22:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1035024

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, whether each of the access to treatment pathways will (a) be published in the timetable set out and (b) will include waiting time targets.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Five of the clinical pathways referred to on page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health have been published to date. These are for early intervention in psychosis, urgent and emergency liaison mental health services, services for children and young people with eating disorders, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies pathway for long term conditions, and the perinatal mental health pathway.</p><p> </p><p>Two more pathways, those focusing on crisis and acute mental health, and children and young people’s mental health care, are under development.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining pathways are being reviewed to ensure they align with the new commitments and direction set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. NHS England has not confirmed the date of publication for these remaining pathways.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to specific waiting times targets for emergency mental health services which will take effect for the first time from 2020, and will be set to align with the equivalent targets for emergency physical health services. The Long Term Plan also contains commitments to test and roll out comprehensive waiting time standards for adults and children over the next decade.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:45:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1010401

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, whether each access to treatment pathway will (a) be published according to the timetable set out in that document and (b) include waiting time targets.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	192939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Of the clinical pathways referred to on page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, the following have already been published.</p><p> </p><p>- Early Intervention in Psychosis;</p><p>- Urgent and Emergency Liaison Mental Health Services;</p><p>- Services for Children and Young People with Eating Disorders;</p><p>- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) pathway for Long Term Conditions; and</p><p>- The Perinatal Pathway.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, guidance in relation to IAPT for people with long-term conditions has also been published (in March) along with guidance on commissioning physical healthcare for people with severe mental illness and for developing accident and emergency liaison psychiatry services.</p><p> </p><p>The acute pathway for adults and older adults are still in development alongside an updated Pathway for children and young people with eating disorders, so that more young people can be treated closer to home.</p><p> </p><p>Other pathways will now need to be considered within the context of the long-term plan. The Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2018 17:43:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1132972

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 12 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that all acute hospitals will have mental health liaison teams for all age groups by 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	266263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>Between 2016 and 2018, NHS England has awarded transformation funding for liaison mental health services to 71 hospital sites to achieve the ‘core 24’ service standard as set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.</p><p>To track progress, NHS England has commissioned the annual survey of liaison psychiatry, which took a snapshot of progress as at June 2018. The survey is nearly complete and results are expected to be published by NHS England in the coming weeks and are expected to demonstrate positive progress. The survey has been re-commissioned to take place again in 2019.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan confirmed continued further investment in liaison mental health services, with an expectation that not only would all hospitals have a liaison mental health service, but 70% will be achieving the ‘core 24’ service level by 2023/24. NHS England and NHS Improvement are currently inviting applications from sustainability and transformation partnerships for the second wave of national funding.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/06/2019 16:26:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

931377

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Acute Mental Health Care Pathway for Adults and Older Adults is planned to include waiting times benchmarks.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	157823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>Prompt access is an essential component of safe care for acutely unwell people. The Acute Mental Health Care Pathway for Adults and Older Adults Pathway, which is currently being finalised for publication, is planned to include key interventions focused on ensuring that people are not waiting an undue length of time to access acute mental health care, whether in an inpatient or community setting.</p><p> </p><p>The pathway will draw on existing good practice examples from areas where timely access is consistently delivered, highlighting the common features of these systems which make this possible, such as robust community-based provision and whole-system capacity management.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/07/2018 15:51:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

909208

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to publish a second Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	146212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering the recommendations set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and an ambitious programme is underway to transform mental health services by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The proposals set out in the Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health, which are supported by over £300 million of additional funding, aim to improve provision of mental health services for all children and young people through improved working across health and education and by increasing access to specialist services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has commissioned an Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, to look at how it is used and how practice can improve. The review’s final report, with recommendations for change, will be published in autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In the longer term, the Government’s commitment to ensure parity of esteem between mental and physical health is enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/05/2018 15:31:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1035022

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to introduce waiting time standards for adults accessing treatments in secondary mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>In line with its commitments in the Long Term Plan, NHS England will be testing four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas. This will help build NHS England’s understanding of how best to introduce ambitious but achievable improvements in access, quality of care and outcomes. Clear standards will then be set for patients requiring access to community mental health treatment and rolled out across the National Health Service over the next decade.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting time standards are already in place for Early Intervention in Psychosis. 76.2% of patients with first episode psychosis started treatment within two weeks in November 2018. Performance is above the waiting time standard, which will increase from 50% of patients in 2017/18 to 60% by 2020/21 as part of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, and is 53% in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:41:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper