PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment (18 July 2022)

We are providing an additional £2.3 billion a year for mental health services by 2023/24 to expand adult community, crisis and acute mental health services to prevent avoidable deterioration and hospital admission and ensure sufficient mental health bed capacity. We are also investing £150 million in the mental health estate to increase system capacity and reduce pressures, including non-medical alternatives to admission, step-down community beds and supported living services. All systems with inappropriate out of area placements are required to refresh local plans to ensure these placements are eliminated as soon as reasonably possible.