Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he has provided to ensure best practices of emotional and psychological support delivery can be shared across NHS England services.

A new Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset is being implemented to enable NHS England to monitor existing integrated pathways and support local areas and share best practice. NHS England has also published guidance developed with the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines (NICE) to share best practice on implementing the IAPT long term conditions pathway. This expansion of IAPT will ensure that more people can receive emotional and psychological support in line with NICE’s guidance.

We are also expanding integrated community models to allow at least 370,000 adults and older adults with severe mental illness each year to have greater choice and control over their care and are supported to live well in their communities.