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<p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health 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>To support the delivery of this ambition, in October
2016 the Government put in place the first data collection to secure much-needed national
transparency on the number of patients that are sent out of their local area for acute
inpatient treatment.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is using this new data to support local
health systems to develop and deliver trajectories to eliminate inappropriate out
of area placements.</p><p> </p><p>More than £400 million which 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.</p><p> </p><p>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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