NHS patients should wait no longer for mental health therapies than they do for treatments for their physical conditions, the government will announce.
With more than 6 million people suffering from depression
or crippling anxiety but only 75% receiving any medical help, the
government is to propose that NHS mental health patients have a "parity
of esteem" in doctors' surgeries.
The
policy will be formally announced on Tuesday as part of the mandate for
the NHS commissioning board, the means by which the health service will
be held accountable to parliament under its reforms. The "contract with
the NHS" will specify that mental healthcare should be on a par with
physical care – "that it values mental and physical health equally".
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