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<p>Day to day operational decisions about the management of individual patients are
a matter for NHS England and/or the trusts with responsibility for patient care.</p><p>
</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that patients with mental health conditions
can receive treatment as close as possible to where they live. Inappropriate out of
area placements are unacceptable and the Government has set a target to eliminate
these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>More than
£400 million has been made available for investment in mental health crisis resolution
home treatment teams over the next four years, enabling them to provide 24/7 crisis
response and intensive home treatment as a genuine alternative to admission where
appropriate. Shared learning and best-practice advice on reducing out of area placements
through improved system capacity management will be included in acute care commissioning
guidance.</p>
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