Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to expand and improve assertive outreach services for people with severe mental illness.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
We recognise that assertive care is a vital component of community mental health services. NHS England has issued draft guidance to services which makes clear what, as a minimum, they should be doing to support people who would benefit from intensive and assertive community mental health care. More widely, we are looking to learn from the model of care tested as part of the community-based mental health centre pilots and to encourage assertive approaches through implementation of the Personalised Care Framework. This framework sets out minimum standards of care to be delivered by trusts, so that everyone across mental health services gets the basics of good care, no matter the local configuration.
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