PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People (4 February 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under-18 years olds waited longer than four weeks to access CAMHS services in the last 12 months (a) in each region and (b) nationally.

Asked by:
Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat)

The information is not collected in the format requested. However, we have introduced two waiting times for children and young people: for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases, and for 56% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral. We are on target to meet these aims by 2020/21.

Quarterly data and trend indicators on these two waiting time targets is available through the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard.

A national access and waiting times standard for wider child and adolescent mental health services has not yet been defined.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
10 February 2020