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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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.

News
28 Nov 2024

NHS Providers responds to CQC maternity report

Saffron Cordery responds to a survey of people who used NHS maternity services in 2024 by the Care Quality Commission.

Briefing
22 Nov 2024

Mental Health Bill 2025

NHS Providers share a briefing in advance of the second reading of the Mental Health Bill on 25 November.

News
21 Nov 2024

Mental health services under pressure ‘like never before’

Saffron Cordery responds to a Health Services Safety Investigations Body report about out of area placements of mental health patients.

News
12 Nov 2024

Trusts braced for another gruelling winter in the NHS

NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery sets out the latest findings of our annual State of the Provider Sector survey.

News
06 Nov 2024

Pressing need for mental health reform, support and improvement

Saffron Cordery responds to government plans to reform and modernise the Mental Health Act.

News
31 Oct 2024

Providers Deliver: shifting care upstream

A new report by NHS Providers shows how in the face of a very challenging environment trusts are innovating and adapting to deliver the three key shifts called for by the government.

News
24 Oct 2024

Much more to do to improve mental health services across England

NHS Providers deputy chief executive, Saffron Cordery, responds to the first of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body’s (HSSIB) investigations into mental health inpatient settings.

Blog
12 Sep 2024

Changing the narrative on suicide: how can the new government deliver its ambition to save lives?

In support of World Suicide Prevention day, Ella Fuller shares why England’s suicide prevention strategy still needs to be backed by sufficient resources.

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