Mental Health Services: Standards
(asked on 15th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS digital mental health services.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department has not undertaken such an assessment. Early Value Assessment is a new process designed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to assess the clinical effectiveness of health technologies that have an emerging evidence base, earlier and faster than a full NICE appraisal. The initial topics selected for consideration include technologies for use in mental health.
The Spring 2023 Budget contained a number of packages that support mental health, including around £200 million for digital mental health. This funding is to modernise and digitise mental health services in England, provide wellness and clinical grade apps free at the point of use, pilot cutting-edge digital therapies and digitise the NHS Talking Therapies programme.