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Mental Health Services: Standards

Commons · Question 55973 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Joshua Reynolds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's planned timetable is for publishing its plans to reduce the time taken for patients to receive mental health treatment.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 9 Jun 2025

Long waits for mental health services are being driven by increasing demand to a system in desperate need of change. The Government is already responding by delivering new and innovative models of care in the community. We are piloting innovative models o...