Opposition Day — Mental Health — 9 Dec 2015 at 15:51

The majority of MPs voted against enshrining the right to psychological therapies in the NHS Constitution; against equality in entitlements to treatments and against a new Government response to mental health.

• That this House
• believes that mental health should be treated with the same priority as physical health and recognises the importance of promoting good mental health from childhood through to adulthood;
• believes that not enough progress has been made in translating this House’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health into practice;
• notes with concern that the King’s Fund has reported widespread evidence of poor-quality care across mental health services, and the latest available figures show a rise in suicide rates and the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983 increasing by 10 per cent in the past year alone;
• further notes the delay in the publication of NHS England’s Mental Health Taskforce report;
• notes the concerns that have been raised with the Scottish Government regarding the rate of inappropriate admissions of young people to non-specialist facilities for mental health treatment which have increased by 38 per cent since 2011;
• is concerned by the absence of data on NHS spending on mental health services since 2011-12;
• opposes the Government's decision not to enshrine the right to psychological therapies in the NHS Constitution; and
• calls on the Government to urgently rectify this systemic inequity in entitlement to treatments, reinstate the annual survey of investment in mental health services and develop and implement in full a new strategy to improve the Government’s cross-departmental response to mental health.

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