Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment
(asked on 24th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to define a target for the number of out-of-area placements for non-specialist mental health care.
This question was answered on 27th May 2016
In April 2016, the Government announced a national ambition to eliminate inappropriate out of area treatments for adult acute inpatient care as a result of local acute bed pressures by 2020/21 at the latest. We expect areas to put in place local action plans and achieve year on year reductions from 2016/17.