The government must act now to put in place access and waiting time standards for mental health services for the NHS to get closer to achieving ‘parity’ between mental and physical health care, according to the chief exectuive of the Centre for Mental Health.
Welcoming the recent House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report on progress in improving NHS mental health services, Andy Bell (pcitured) said: “The committee has rightly acknowledged the hard work the NHS in England has done to expand mental health services since the Long Term Plan was published in 2019. But it is also clear that this is work in progress, with a lot more to do to make ‘parity’ more than a slogan.