Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 9
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Not Addressed
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We further recommend that NHS England & Improvement hold Clinical Commissioning Groups, which have consistently...
Recommendation
We further recommend that NHS England & Improvement hold Clinical Commissioning Groups, which have consistently failed to meet national expectations, to account on key measures such as expenditure, waiting times and access rates. National ambitions should be raised in line with the best performing areas so that best practice becomes universal practice. This is essential to ensuring that provision of children and young people’s mental health services does not remain a ‘postcode lottery’.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts the recommendation in part but responds by detailing the transformation and growth of the mental health workforce led by Health Education England, rather than addressing how NHS England & Improvement will hold Clinical Commissioning Groups accountable for specific performance measures like waiting times or access rates.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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47. We accept this recommendation in part. 48. Although record numbers of children and young people are accessing support and the NHS exceeded the ambitions of the 5 Year Forward View for Mental Health nationally, we are committed to supporting systems and services to address local variation. 49. As part of our commitment to transparency, NHSEI will continue to publish local progress on access and spend through the NHS mental health dashboard , through which we make available information about the number of children and young people nationally, regionally, and in clinical commissioning group areas, who are accessing support with NHS-funded community mental health services, as well as national, regional and local data on how much is spent on mental health services, excluding learning disabilities and eating disorders. 50. We will continue to support systems to understand their proportional expected share of the increased access targets year on year.
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