Mental Health Services: Wirral

(asked on 7th May 2019) - 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 access to mental health services for (a) adults, (b) children and (c) young people in Wirral.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 13th May 2019

The Department has made no such assessment. Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for ensuring adequate provision and access to mental health services for their local populations. Following a detailed procurement exercise, Wirral Health and Care Commissioning appointed a new provider for its Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service which commenced in April 2019. The service is available for those over 18 experiencing common mental health problems.

Wirral Health and Care Commissioning is also working with local providers to look at areas of transformation needed to reduce the waits and improve patient experience and access in secondary care, for children and young people and adults. This will include crisis care and physical health in serious mental illness.

In its Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to test and roll out comprehensive waiting time standards for adults and children over the next decade. This builds on existing waiting times targets for psychological therapies, and for treatment for first episode psychosis and children and young people with eating disorders, which are all being met or on track for delivery by 2020/21 in line with previous commitments.

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