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<p>In response to the NHS Long Term Plan, the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire
West Integrated Care System published a draft strategic delivery plan in September
2019 which outlines how each county will work with stakeholders to deliver the expectations
of the Plan, including how to further improve local mental health services. This is
available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://bobstp.org.uk/media/1752/ics-ltp-1st-draft-submission-v10-2.pdf"
target="_blank">https://bobstp.org.uk/media/1752/ics-ltp-1st-draft-submission-v10-2.pdf</a></p><p>Buckinghamshire
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) reports that a number of developments, which have
the potential to impact on mental health care in Wycombe, are being delivered or are
planned for delivery over the next financial year. These include:</p><p>- improving
mental health crisis services with an increase in the number of days that the ‘safe
haven’ service will operate in 2020 with a new location opening in High Wycombe. Home
treatment for acutely unwell mental health patients will also start to be offered;</p><p>-
two mental health support teams becoming operational in 2019, working in 33 schools
across Buckinghamshire to provide interventions to young people with low to moderate
mental health needs. The CCG will bid for national funding to expand this offering
in 2020;</p><p>- increasing access to Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services
(CAMHS). The number of young people accessing these services has increased and waiting
times for assessment have decreased. The CCG will continue to develop this further
into 2020 using online technology to increase access;</p><p>- recruiting additional
CAMHS psychologists as part of the four-week wait pilot scheme;</p><p>- the employment
of additional trainees by Buckinghamshire’s ‘Healthy Minds’ service; and</p><p>- continuing
to improve the physical health of people that have a serious mental illness by ensuring
they are able to access an annual physical health check.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
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