PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Hospital Wards (30 November 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has set a target date to end the use of shared sleeping arrangements in mental health wards.
Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Answer
We recognise that every psychiatric inpatient deserves the dignity and privacy of their own room. We have committed to over £400 million over the next four years to support our plans to eradicate the use of shared sleeping arrangements in the mental health estate. This includes £250 million funding for 2020/21 and a further £165 million for 2021/22.
NHS England and NHS Improvement have a plan for the trusts and schemes that will take this work forward. No target end date has been set. However, we will deliver the first tranche of new accommodation this financial year.
Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
7 December 2020
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