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<p>NHS England is currently working nationally with 12 pilot sites to test the feasibility
of delivering a four-week waiting time for access to National Health Service mental
health support. Delivering and maintaining a waiting time across the large and complex
children and young people’s mental health pathway is a challenge, and we are proceeding
carefully so as not to establish any perverse incentives.</p><p> </p><p>The pilots
will test not only what it takes to achieve and maintain a four-week waiting time,
but also how best to define and measure this access to specialist children and young
people’s mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>The agreed pilots end in 2020/21. Results
will then be evaluated. The Department and NHS England will consider the results of
the evaluation and will look at its implications for the development and rollout of
access and waiting time standards for all children and young people who need specialist
mental health services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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