Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 14th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on CAMHS in-patient services in each of the last five years; and what proportion of that spend is received by private providers.
The following table shows total child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) expenditure for the last five years split by type of provider. The information relates to Tier 4 specialised mental health beds for children and young people, aged 13-18, commissioned by NHS England. CAMHS Tier 4 includes general inpatient care and specialised eating disorders services. These figures will include very small elements of non-in-patient services as we are unable to detail spend on inpatients only.
| CAMHS Expenditure | Expenditure at Independent Sector (IS) Providers on CAMHS | Expenditure at National Health Service Providers on CAMHS | Expenditure at IS Providers on CAMHS | Expenditure at NHS Providers on CAMHS |
| £ million | £ million | £ million | % | % |
2013/14 | 252.0 | 122.0 | 130.0 | 48% | 52% |
2014/15 | 279.6 | 120.3 | 159.3 | 43% | 57% |
2015/16 | 319.1 | 136.6 | 182.5 | 43% | 57% |
2016/17 | 341.5 | 156.4 | 185.1 | 46% | 54% |
2017/18 | 355.2 | 156.5 | 198.7 | 44% | 56% |
Spend in Independent Sector providers in 2017/18 totalled £156.5 million.