PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bipolar Disorder: Suicide (12 April 2021)

Under the NHS Long Term Plan, we are introducing new models of care which will, by 2023/24, give 370,000 adults with a severe mental illness such as bipolar disorder greater choice and control over their care and support them to live well in their communities. We are also investing £57million in suicide prevention through the Plan.

On 27 March, we published our COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan, backed by £500 million to support people’s mental health in 2021/22. £58 million of this will be used to accelerate the community mental health framework to treat adults with severe mental illness. The recovery action plan also includes £6 million to boost support for specific suicide prevention work, with £1 million for NHS England and NHS Improvement’s work on suicide prevention and £5 million to support voluntary sector organisations that prevent suicide in the community.