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<p>In September we announced ‘Our Plan for Patients’, which outlines how we will increase
access to National Health Service mental health and eating disorder services, including
in Streatham. Making it easier to access general practice through our ABCD priorities
will expand this route as a gateway to mental health care.</p><p>Through the NHS Long
Term Plan, we are investing an additional £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to expand
these services for adults, children and young people in England, including in Streatham.</p><p>We
will invest approximately £1 billion in community mental health care for adults with
severe mental illness, including eating disorders, by 2023/24 and an additional £53
million per year in children and young people's community eating disorder services
to increase capacity in the 70 community eating disorder teams.</p>
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