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<p>The Government has expanded mental health services to support the growing number
of people in crisis to receive the care they need, and to prevent them from entering
crisis in the first place. We are investing at least £2.3 billion of additional yearly
funding by March 2024, compared to 2018/19, to expand mental health services in England,
with the aim of supporting access to mental health services for an additional two
million people.</p><p>We are also investing £150 million in mental health urgent and
emergency care infrastructure across 2023/24 and 2024/25, to fund up to 100 new mental
health ambulances and a range of new and improved facilities, including crisis cafes,
crisis houses, urgent mental health assessment and care centres, and health-based
places of safety. This investment will improve patients’ experience and outcomes,
reduce the need for inpatient admission, and help ease the pressure on accident and
emergency departments and ambulance services.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social
Care and the Home Office will evaluate the implementation of Right Care, Right Person
following the National Partnership Agreement published in July 2023.</p>
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