Sarah Newton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Newton on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS England’s review of Tier 4 Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services provision will be complete.

Norman Lamb

This mapping exercise looking at Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health services has been completed. NHS England is now formulating an implementation plan and is preparing to publish a report of the exercise along with the implementation plan as soon as possible via the governance processes of NHS England.

The implementation will proceed via two distinct phases recognising that there are urgent actions which need to be taken to improve access and to reduce long distance referrals. The second phase will focus on the more medium term actions required. The implementation plan when finalised, will be clear about the timescales.