Source · Select Committees · Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Recommendation 12
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Require joint DEFRA/DHSC team to integrate interventions with DfT and DSIT for rural mental health access
Recommendation
The solution to providing accessible rural mental health services is unlikely to be “one thing” but more likely a package involving innovation and imagination from both patients and service providers. The new joint DEFRA/DHSC rural mental health team should consider how best to prepare and make an effective and integrated interventions with (i) the Department of Transport, and (ii) the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, in respect of achieving improved levels of accessibility to rural mental health services from new joined-up working, starting with the emerging rural transport strategy and Project Gigabit for rural broadband.
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Government Response
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