Mental Health Services: Yorkshire and the Humber

(asked on 5th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to support increased provision of emergency beds for mental health crisis patients in Yorkshire and the Humber.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 9th February 2018

Significant work is underway to ensure all areas of the country are actively prioritising the provision of crisis response and acute mental health care services.

By 2021, in line with recommendations from the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health all areas should have crisis resolution and home treatment teams which can provide both a 24/7 community-based emergency response and offer intensive home treatment as an alternative to an acute inpatient admission.

We have set an ambition to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements for adult acute mental health care resulting from local bed capacity pressures. All areas have plans in place to ensure that acute mental health inpatient beds are always available to people who need them by 2021.

In Yorkshire and the Humber, work is expected to begin on a new inpatient mental health facility for children and young people at St Mary’s Hospital in 2019. Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust already operates disability and mental health services from the site. The new unit will have 18 specialist and four psychiatric intensive care beds.

Humber NHS Foundation Trust is developing a new 11 bed mental health unit in West Hull. The facility will help young people from Hull, East Riding and North and North East Lincolnshire suffering with mental health problems.

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