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1718814

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
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: Standards
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 20 February 2023 to Question 142657 on Mental Health Services: Children and Young People, what progress has been made on work to (a) establish the feasibility and associated risks of introducing new mental health waiting time standards for (i) adult's and (ii) children and young people’s community-based mental health services and (b) support the development of a baseline position for waiting times.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	26668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England will publish new core community all-age mental health waiting time metrics from autumn 2024, which will encompass activity data from April 2024. It will cover the percentage of patients receiving meaningful help within four weeks of referral to community mental health services. Once published, NHS England will focus on improving data quality, including ensuring appropriate Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine data is flowed to show when patients are receiving meaningful help. Improved data quality within community mental health services will provide greater insights into the frequency and types of therapeutic provision.</p><p>The publication of the new community waiting times metrics is expected to increase transparency and local accountability on waiting times for community mental health services. Furthermore, NHS England expect that publication of the data will improve the quality of the data, so that the Department and NHS England will be in a better position to assess the costs and benefits of introducing performance standards against these metrics.</p><p>Systems have also been asked to focus on reducing long waits in community mental health services and to develop local plans to support this, including by improving data quality. We will work with systems to develop an agreed baseline and improvement trajectories for waits over 104 weeks in autumn 2024, as referenced in NHS England’s 2024/25 Operational Planning Guidance.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/05/2024 09:35:04 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1715790

registered interest
date	03/05/2024
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: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the average time from first contact with the NHS specialist mental health services to the commencement of regular talking therapy treatment for someone with a mental health condition receiving treatment through talking therapy.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	24768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>In England, for the reporting period of 2022/23, there were 1,215,329 referrals to the NHS Talking Therapies programme, where treatment was started within the same period. The average waiting time from a referral being received to first treatment was 19.8 days. For the reporting period of February 2024, there were 109,260 referrals that started treatment within the same period, with an average 17.1 day wait from referral to first treatment. A referral has accessed services when the patient has attended their first treatment appointment, or an Internet Enabled Therapy log has been recorded for them.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 09/05/2024 17:09:26 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1701943

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
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: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress NHS England has made on developing a neuropsychiatric service specification.
tabling member constituency	Watford
tabling member printed	Dean Russell
uin	22413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>NHS England remains committed to the continued development and improvement of all services, including neuropsychiatry. Neuropsychiatry covers a broad spectrum of mental health support, for people with a broad spectrum of neurological conditions, and as such, provision of neuropsychiatry falls within the care pathway of a range of services.</p><p>The provision of neuropsychiatry is included in, and will be strengthened within, the updated neurology service specification, neurosurgery specification, and complex rehabilitation service specification. The requirement and scope of a standalone neuropsychiatry service specification is being discussed with the Royal College of Psychiatry and mental health colleagues.</p><p>The Neurology Clinical Reference Group (CRG) will continue to lead this work and take forward discussions with the Royal College of Psychiatry, which is represented on both the Neurology CRG and Complex Rehabilitation and Disability CRG, and is contributing to the development of the service specifications listed above.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 25/04/2024 16:52:55 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell

1697658

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
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: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve mental health services and reduce waiting times for those seeking treatment.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL3450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <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 NHS Long Term Plan. The 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, approximately 17,000, 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 printed Lord Markham question first answered 25/03/2024 16:06:26 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1677545

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
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: Standards
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 NHS is on track to meet the target for NHS Talking Therapies of 1.9 million people in England accessing treatment by the end of 2023/24.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	6687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/12/2023 answer text <p>The additional investment for NHS Talking Therapies from the Autumn Statement is focused on helping people recover from anxiety and depression. It will do this through service expansion over five years, enabling more people to have a course of treatment, representing an additional 384,000 people over five years, and supporting services to be offer patients a larger number of sessions which will improve people's chance of fully recovering.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 27/12/2023 11:47:25 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 8352 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1670244

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
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: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS digital mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	2058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not undertaken such an assessment. Early Value Assessment is a new process designed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to assess the clinical effectiveness of health technologies that have an emerging evidence base, earlier and faster than a full NICE appraisal. The initial topics selected for consideration include technologies for use in mental health.</p><p>The Spring 2023 Budget contained a number of packages that support mental health, including around £200 million for digital mental health. This funding is to modernise and digitise mental health services in England, provide wellness and clinical grade apps free at the point of use, pilot cutting-edge digital therapies and digitise the NHS Talking Therapies programme.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/11/2023 16:55:39 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1646742

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
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: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the findings of the rapid review into patient safety in mental health inpatient settings.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	190879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>The findings of the rapid review have been published today [ 28 June 2023].</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 28/06/2023 16:46:50 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1640516

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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: Standards
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 made an assessment of the outcomes for people discharged from mental health wards.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	186882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. We are working with the National Health Service to improve inpatient mental health care and subsequent patient outcomes. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to expanding and transforming NHS mental health services by March 2024, including those provided in an inpatient setting.</p><p>Where the quality or safety of inpatient care falls short, it is important that we learn from any mistakes to improve care across the NHS and protect patients in the future. This is why we have conducted a rapid review into mental health inpatient settings, with a specific focus on how we use data and evidence, including complaints, feedback and whistleblowing alerts, to identify risks to safety and bring about improvements to outcome-based, therapeutic care. The review’s report is expected to be published shortly.</p><p>NHS England has also established a three-year quality transformation programme, which seeks to tackle the root causes of unsafe, poor-quality inpatient care in mental health, learning disability and autism settings.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/06/2023 13:26:07 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1611314

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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: Standards
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 he has made of the adequacy of the responsiveness of crisis teams in mental health services; and if he will set national standards for that responsiveness.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	180942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. As part of its clinically-led review of National Health Service access standards, NHS England published the outcomes of its consultation on the potential to introduce five new access and waiting time standards for mental health services in February 2022. Two of these relate to community-based mental health crisis services, including: an ‘urgent’ referral to a community based mental health crisis service, for which a patient should be seen within 24 hours from referral, across all ages; and a ‘very urgent’ referral to a community based mental health crisis service, for which a patient should be seen within four hours from referral, for all age groups.</p><p> </p><p>As a first step, NHS England has shared and promoted guidance with its local system partners to consistently report waiting times to support the development of a baseline position.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/04/2023 08:13:25 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1606485

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
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: Standards
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 he is taking to ensure that the CAMHS four week referral and one week urgent referral targets are met across the country.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	171607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>For children and young people, we have set up the first standard to improve access to eating disorder services for children and young people. This states that 95% of children with an eating disorder will receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases. Prior to the pandemic, significant progress had been made towards achieving the 95% access target.</p><p>Since the pandemic, there has been a significant increase in demand and more children and young people with an eating disorder are accessing support than ever before. The number of children and young people entering urgent treatment for an eating disorder has increased by 11% to 2,632 in 2021/2022 compared to 2020/2021. The year before this it increased by 73% from 1,373 to 2,372 children and young people.</p><p>This increase in demand has affected performance against the waiting timing standard and the latest figures show that this is not currently being met. We remain committed to delivering this waiting time standard. NHS England continues to work with system leaders and regions and to ask that areas prioritise service delivery and investment to meet the needs of these vulnerable young people.</p><p>Since 2016, extra funding is going into children and young people's community eating disorder services every year, with £53 million per year from 2021/2022, rising to £54 million in 2023/2024. This extra funding will enhance the capacity of the 70 new or improved community eating disorder teams covering the whole of the country.</p><p>We acknowledge that more support is still needed, which is why we are also rolling out mental health support teams as fast as we can, ahead of plan, as well as establishing 24/7 crisis lines.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 27/03/2023 16:09:24 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome