Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the integration of mental health services into existing NHS provision.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
We will ensure that we give mental health the same attention and focus as physical health, so that people can be confident in accessing high quality mental health support when they need it.
We know wider change is needed and we have launched a national conversation, called Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future, to develop the 10-Year Health Plan. We are inviting people to share their ideas on what needs to change across the health and care system, including: how the National Health Service could change to deliver high quality care more effectively; how other parts of the health and care system and other organisations in society could change to promote better health and improve the way health and care services work together; and how individuals and communities could do things differently in the future to improve people’s health.
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