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 potential merits of the Trieste model of mental health care delivery.

No formal assessment has been made of the Trieste model. The NHS Long Term Plan includes a specific focus on transforming and expanding community mental health support to avoid people going into crisis and the need for an inpatient admission wherever possible. Under the Plan, new and integrated models of primary and community mental health care will give 370,000 adults and older adults with severe mental illnesses greater choice and control over their care and support them to live well in their communities by 2023/24.