MPs continue inquiry into community mental health services
7 March 2025
The Health and Social Care Committee will next week take evidence from lived experience witnesses, health professionals and senior officials from NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards, as it continues its inquiry examining the provision of community mental health services (CMHS) for adults with severe mental health needs.
The second evidence session of the inquiry will see the Committee examine the integration between community mental health services and primary care. Committee members are likely to ask how community mental health teams could work more effectively with colleagues in primary care and what more could be done to achieve more person-centred services.
MPs will also be asking whether the 2019 Community Mental Health Framework has aided integration, and examine what policy interventions the Government and NHSE should prioritise, to drive improvements in access to care across the country.
In Wednesday’s session, the Committee will also question witnesses about the funding of mental health services, including the future of the mental health investment standard.
Witnesses
At 9:30am
- Eve Mair, lived experience witness
- Elizabeth Sutton, lived experience witness
At 10.00am
- Dr Lade Smith CBE, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Steve Forsyth, Chief Nursing Officer, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Emma Tiffin, National GP Advisor Community and Primary Care, Adult Mental Health, NHS England and Associate Director Mental Health & Learning Disabilities, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB
At 10.45am
- Rt Hon Sir Norman Lamb, Chair, South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust
- Jane Yeandle, Service Group Director (Mental Health and Learning Disabilities), Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Samantha Allen, Chief Executive, North East and North Cumbria ICB
Further information
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