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<p>Whilst a definitive answer is not possible, most of this additional funding was
allocated to local health systems to be spent on expanding and transforming mental
health services across the country. This is evidenced by:</p><p>- an increase in the
number of adults accessing NHS Talking Therapies, with nearly 6 million people being
supported over this five year period; an increase in the number of children and young
people accessing mental health support, with over 750,000 children and young people
under 18 years old supported through National Health Service funded mental health
services, those with at least one contact, over the 12 months to January 2024;</p><p>-
the roll out of approximately 400 mental health support teams in schools and colleges;
the transformation of community mental health services for adults with approximately
288,000 adults and older adults with severe mental illness able to access improved
physical health care, employment support, personalised and trauma informed care, medicines
management and support for self-harm, and coexisting substance use over 2022/23, the
latest full financial year for which figures are available;</p><p>- the establishment
of around the clock and all-age urgent mental health helplines in every part of England;</p><p>-
the investment of £30 million to meet the health needs of people sleeping rough, allowing
for the establishment of 37 sites with new mental health provision for rough sleepers;</p><p>-
the opening, or planned opening, of 15 specialist gambling treatment clinics, achieving
representation across every region of England and including specialist provision for
children and young people;</p><p>- the provision of £57 million of funding up to the
end of March 2024, to embed local suicide and self-harm prevention activity, and to
provide suicide bereavement support services in every local area.</p>
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