Mental Health Services: Greater Manchester
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health support teams there were in (a) Worsley and Eccles constituency, (b) Salford and (c) Wigan in each year since 2014.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows a summary of mental health support teams in (a) Worsley and Eccles constituency, Salford and Wigan in each year since 2014.
Financial Year | Number of teams |
| |
2021/2022 | Two | ||
2022/2023 | Two | ||
2023/2024 | Three teams specific to Wigan and one footprint team across Wigan and Bolton | ||
2024/2025 | Four Wigan teams in total, of which three are specific to Wigan and one footprint team across Wigan and Bolton. | ||
Source: NHS England
Note: there were no teams in existence between 2014 and 2020/21.
Salford has three Community Mental Health Teams covering the Salford locality and this has been the case since prior to 2014. Since 2022, Salford has also implemented a living well offer as part of the core community mental health pathway, working into each of the five primary care networks in the city. There are also specialist teams, for example, Early Intervention in Psychosis, adult community eating disorders, Home Based Treatment and MH Liaison, in addition to primary care mental health talking therapies, covering the Salford population.
Wigan mobilised its first two mental health support teams in 2021/22 with the staff in post and starting their training course in Sept 2021 and the team going live in the spring of 2022.
In 2023/24 Greater Manchester Mental Health was allocated funding for 2.58 new teams for the Wigan and Bolton footprint. This was an additional team for each locality and the development of a footprint higher education offer.
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