NHS vow to invest extra £1bn a year into mental health, by 2020

People suffering mental health problems will soon be able to receive treatment 24/7, after an independent task force found that the UK government will need to invest an extra £1bn annually by 2020/21.

This NHS England backed report has found 75% of people with mental health problems are currently receiving no help towards their condition.

The recommendation by the task force suggests the NHS needs to deliver rapid improvements by 2020-21 and ensure that 1 million more people with mental health problems are accessing the highest quality of care.

They have also recommended people in a mental health crises should receive treatment in the same way that we expect urgent physical health care. People who are suffering should get the right care as soon as possible, which was one of the top priorities of the report. They have found early intervention services provide higher outcomes and will, in time reduce costs.

This announcement came after Jeremy Hunt, said the government would have to give the NHS “significant” amounts of extra money by 2020, suggesting they would need much more than the £10bn which is being put in before then, so the NHS can cope with the ageing population.

When focusing on suicide rates in England, which had peaked in 2014, to 4,881. Suicide is now the leading cause of death in men aged between, 15-49. The task force says every area across the country should develop a suicide prevention plan to be able to intervene in high risk groups. Part of these plans are to be borrowed from successful models at a local levels in the UK and the US.

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And to find out more here is the report:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf

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