£30m being cut from mental health services, claims report

May 12, 2006

Cuts totalling £30m are being made to 30 mental health services around England, a charity report stated

The report, published by Rethink this week, accuses health trusts and councils of singling out mental health as they battle to relieve the NHS predicted debt of up to £700m for the past financial year.

Cliff Prior, Rethink’s chief executive, said: ““We are worried that vital services, such as early intervention, are going to be severely damaged by these cuts. This is in spite of the government setting mental health as a top priority in 1999.”

Read for yourself:
Rethink's A Cut Too Far report (pdf)

See also:
May 5, 2006: More than 10 per cent of mental health trusts are cutting services, admits Louis Appleby - Appleby responds to Tory criticisms that in-the-black mental health trusts cut services to assist other financially-cripped trusts
Mental health comment
April 4, 2006: Stop using mental health as an emergency piggy bank - Want to prevent cuts to your local mental health services? Then get campaigning, urges Simon des Forges

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