Mental health

National commitments to transform and improve mental health care are welcome but extra funding needs to get through to the frontline and workforce gaps addressed in order for services to meet rapidly growing demand and transform for the future.

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27 Mar 2025

Disappointment at future mental health share of NHS funds

Saffron Cordery responds to a government statement about expected mental health spending.

News
16 Mar 2025

Plans to help cut waiting lists welcome but mental health services ‘should not be an afterthought’

Saffron Cordery responds to a government announcement on plans to send ‘crack teams’ to support hospital trusts in areas where more people are out of work and waiting for treatment.

News
12 Mar 2025

NHS Providers responds to new IFS report on mental health

Saffron Cordery responds to a new report from the IFS on the deterioration in population mental health

News
05 Mar 2025

Further cuts to eating disorder services will ring alarm bells for trust leaders

Saffron Cordery responds to findings from the Royal College of Psychiatrists over planned spending cuts to children's eating disorder services

Briefing
30 Jan 2025

On the day briefing: 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance

NHS Providers share a briefing highlighting key points from the guidance document published, with also our view.

News
30 Jan 2025

NHS trust leaders face difficult decisions and tough trade-offs in the year ahead

Saffron Cordery responds to the publication of the planning guidance by NHS England.

News
30 Jan 2025

NHS has more to learn from mental health inpatient deaths

NHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery responds to a report from the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) on learning from deaths in inpatient mental health services.

News
09 Jan 2025

Winter has been ‘brutal’ for the NHS

NHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery responds to the latest performance statistics for the NHS in England

News
18 Dec 2024

Trusts welcome government mental health spending pledge

Saffron Cordery welcomes a commitment by the health and social care secretary made in an session with MPs.

News
12 Dec 2024

More to do to ‘bridge the gap’ as children and young people transition to adult mental health services

NHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery responds to a report by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body on mental health services.

News
09 Dec 2024

Revised NHS workforce plan must also look at wider challenges facing health service

NHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery responds to news that the government will publish a revised NHS workforce plan in the summer.

News
05 Dec 2024

Trusts urge ‘healthy dose of realism’ over challenging waiting list target

NHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery responds to a speech by the Prime Minister in which he set out a milestone for the NHS for 92% of patients to be seen within 18 weeks of referral.

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