Community mental health services are showing some improvement but concerns over access remain, according to a survey published today by the Healthcare Commission.
Results show that the relationships between service users and their psychiatrists continue to improve year on year. However, almost half of service users do not have access to out-of-hours crisis care and only 49 per cent of those who wanted help finding work were offered it.
Jane Elfer notes that to realise the long-term plan’s ambition of integrating care, paediatric services must be able to support childrens. mental as well as physical health needs
A county council has withdrawn from an agreement in which the NHS commissioned some child mental health services on its behalf, over concerns the expected outcomes were not being achieved.
The chief executive of one of England’s top mental health trusts is retiring this summer.
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