Committees

Progress Improving Mental Health Services

Inquiry

The NHS has a long-standing ambition to close the gap between mental and physical health services. Since 2014 it has implemented various initiatives, including the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan.

Based on the NAO investigation into progress improving mental health services, the Committee will question senior officials at the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England on whether the government has achieved value for money in its efforts to date to expand and improve NHS-funded mental health services.

Questions will include whether the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Health Education England:

  • have a clear understanding of how initiatives to date contribute to the longer-term goal of closing the gap between mental and physical health services;
  • have met ambitions to increase access, capacity, workforce and funding for mental health services, and improve service standards;
  • are well placed to overcome the risks and challenges, including the impact from COVID-19, to achieve future ambitions.

If you have evidence on these issues please submit it here by 6pm on Monday 3 April 2023.

Please have a look at the requirements for written evidence submissions and note the Committee cannot accept as evidence material that has been published elsewhere. 

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 6:00pm on 3 April 2023.

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Past events

Thursday 20 April 2023
9:30am Private
10:00am Public
Progress Improving Mental Health Services - Oral evidence 20 April 2023
10:00am
  • Sir Chris Wormald (Permanent Secretary at Department of Health and Social Care)
  • Matthew Style (Director General NHS Policy and Performance at Department of Health and Social Care)
  • Amanda Pritchard (Chief Executive at NHS England)
  • Claire Murdoch (National Lead for Mental Health at NHS England)
  • Professor Sir Stephen Powis (National Medical Director for England at NHS England)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Monday 17 April 2023
3:30pm Private
4:00pm Public
Progress Improving Mental Health Services - Oral evidence 17 April 2023
4:00pm
  • Chris Dzikiti (Director of Mental Health at Care Quality Commission)
  • Victoria Tzortziou-Brown (Vice Chair for External Affairs at Royal College of GPs)
  • Peter Devlin (Director of Adult Social Care - Mental Health at Essex County Council & Member of Association of Directors of Adult Social Services)
  • Andy Bell (Chief Executive at Centre for Mental Health)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

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