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<p>We have not estimated the number of people with mental health problems in each
of the last five years. The Department has commissioned the National Centre for Social
Research and the University of Leicester to undertake the 2014 Adult Psychological
Morbidity Survey. We are also actively developing plans for a new prevalence survey
for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The following tables show the number
of people in contact with National Health Service secondary mental health services
for the last five years and referrals to NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
Services in 2012-13:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Table 1: People using
NHS funded adult and elderly secondary mental health services, 2008-09 to 2012-13</p></td></tr><tr><td>
</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td>
</td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p><em>numbers</em></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England
total</p></td><td><p>1,222,536</p></td><td><p>1,270,731</p></td><td><p>1,287,730</p></td><td><p>1,607,153</p></td><td><p>1,590,332</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:
</em>Significant changes to local systems and the way Mental Health Minimum Data Set
is processed between 2010-11 and 2011-12 (to implement changes to the dataset and
the implementation of MHMDS version 4) and the edition of data from Independent Service
Providers for the first time that figures for these years are not comparable.</p><p>
</p><p><em>Data source</em>: Mental Health Bulletin, Annual Report from MHMDS Returns,
England - 2012-13</p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Referrals to NHS funded Improving Access
to Psychological Therapies Services<sup>1</sup> 2012-13</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td>
</td><td> </td><td><p><em>numbers</em></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Referrals
Received</p></td><td><p>Entering Treatment<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>883,968</p></td><td><p>434,247</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>As this is the first year of reporting
from the IAPT dataset, only those referrals received in the year are included. Referrals
that predate this point are not included in the figures.</p><p><sup>2</sup>In order
to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment
with a therapy type recorded) in the year.</p><p> </p><p><em>Data source:</em> Psychological
Therapies, Annual Report on the Use of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
Services 2012-13. Health and Social Care Information Centre, Community and Mental
Health Team.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Mental Health has been a priority for this Government
for several years now. We made this commitment explicit in the Health and Social Care
Act 2012 which, for the first time, creates equal status for mental and physical health
across Government and for the NHS and social care.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministerial Advisory
Group brings together individuals and organisations with a specific interest in the
cross government mental health strategy, <em>No Health Without Mental Health</em>,
and how it is delivered.</p><p> </p><p>The Mandate to NHS England 2014-15 makes clear
that “everyone who needs it should have timely access to evidence-based services”.
This will involve extending and ensuring more open access to programmes, in particular
for children and young people, and for those out of work.</p><p> </p><p><em>Closing
the Gap</em>, our new mental health action plan, which has attracted widespread, cross-sector
support, sets out our priorities for essential change in mental health, 25 areas where
people can expect to see and experience the fastest changes. The document challenges
the health and social care community to move further and faster to transform care
and support; the public health community, alongside local government, to give health
and wellbeing promotion and prevention the long-overdue attention it needs and deserves;
and individuals and communities to shift attitudes in mental health.</p><p> </p><p>The
Department is leading an information revolution around mental health. The new national
Mental Health Intelligence Network will draw together comprehensive information about
mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>The new Crisis Care Concordat, signed by
more than 20 national organisations, is a commitment for all agencies involved in
supporting someone in a crisis to work together to improve the system of care and
support so people in crisis are kept safe and helped to find the support they need.
All the signatories have pledged to work together and our expectation is that, in
every locality in England, local partnerships of health, criminal justice and local
authority agencies will agree and commit to local Mental Health Crisis Declarations.</p><p>
</p><p>System partners are also taking responsibility for the drive for parity. Public
Health England (PHE) has made a commitment to addressing parity of esteem through
prioritising mental health and working to embed it throughout all PHE programmes.
Greater attention is needed to mental health throughout the public health system and
PHE seeks to enable and support this through its leadership and delivery of a Wellbeing
and Mental Health programme. It is supporting local authorities and other partners
to give greater attention to mental health within the public health system.</p><p>
</p><p>Health Education England is developing training programmes that will enable
all healthcare employers to ensure that their staff have a greater awareness of mental
health problems and how they may affect their patients. This will include understanding
the links between patient's physical and mental health, so that staff know what actions
they can take to ensure that patients receive appropriate support for both their mental
and physical health care needs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to repeat
the child and adolescent national psychiatric morbidity survey, but is looking at
other ways to investigate the prevalence of mental health problems in children and
young people.</p>
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