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Inquiry launched into improving access to mental health services
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has launched an inquiry into improving access to mental health services.
The PAC acknowledges that both the Department of Health and NHS England have made good progress into increasing access and reducing waiting times, but argues that ‘more needs to be done’.
According to the PAC, estimates or improving access to psychological therapies, early intervention in psychosis and liaison psychiatry services could cost up to £160 million a year more than the estimated £663 million that clinical commissioning groups spent on these services in 2014–15.
The inquiry will look to gain a better understanding of the full cost of implementing new access and waiting time standards.
The Committee will hold a session on 15 June, with Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England and Chris Wormald, permanent secretary for the Department of Health, present as witnesses.
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