Streeting admits another cut to mental health spend share

UK Government Announces Reduction in Share of NHS Spend for Mental Health as Prevalence Rises

Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health, has delivered a statement to the House of Commons in which he confirmed that funding for mental health has fallen as a proportion of NHS spending in England. While there has been a real terms increase of £140m, this amounts a 3.2% reduction in share of spend from last year. This reduction comes despite it being confirmed that one in five people aged 16-64 (22.6%) in England now have a common mental h…

Streeting admits another cut to mental health spend share

The proportion of the NHS budget spent on mental healthcare will be cut for the third year in a row, the health secretary has admitted.