Committees

Community Mental Health Services

Inquiry

The Committee is undertaking an inquiry into community mental health services. The inquiry will examine what good looks like from the perspective of service users and their families/carers. The Committee would like the inquiry to shine a light on case studies of innovative practice and high-quality care across the country, and to undertake meaningful and impactful engagement with people accessing these services. 

The inquiry will consider how service users’ wider health and social needs can be addressed, including in employment and housing, and to understand what policy interventions are required to improve how these needs are met. As part of this inquiry, the Committee also wants to assess to what extent the Community Mental Health Framework is driving improvements in the delivery of more integrated, person-centred care. 

This inquiry is focussing on adults with severe mental health needs in particular, which includes but is not limited to people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and severe depression. The Committee recognises the scale of the challenge in children and young people’s mental health, and plans to do further work in this area in due course, building on its predecessor Committee’s 2021 inquiry. 

In line with the general practice of select committees, the Health and Social Care Committee is not able to take up individual cases or complaints. If you would like political support or advice you may wish to contact your local Member of Parliament.

Call for evidence closed at 23:59pm on Tuesday 4 February 2024.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 11:59pm on 4 February 2025.

Upcoming events

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Past events

Wednesday 10 September 2025
9:00am Private
9:30am Public
Community Mental Health Services - Oral evidence 10 September 2025
9:30am
  • The Baroness Merron (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health at Department of Health and Social Care)
  • Caroline Allnutt (Deputy Director for Serious Mental Illness and Offender Health at Department of Health and Social Care)
  • Gareth Harry (Director of Delivery, Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism at NHS England)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 21 May 2025
9:15am Private
9:30am Public
Community Mental Health Services - Oral evidence 21 May 2025
9:30am
  • Mr Jake Mills (CEO and Founder at Chasing the Stigma, and CEO and Founder at Hub of Hope)
  • Darlington Kudakwashe Zvionere (Head of Clinical Services at Black Minds Matter UK)
10:00am
  • Mr Abdirahim Hassan (Founder at Coffee Afrik CIC)
  • Karyn Kirkpatrick (Chief Executive Officer, Central Services at KeyRing Living Support Networks)
10:30am
  • Michael Crilly (Director at Social Health & Community Inclusion at Life Rooms (Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust))
  • Janine Smith (Chief Operating Officer at Navigo Health and Social Care CIC)
11:00am
  • Professor Belinda Lennox (Professor of Psychiatry at University of Oxford)
  • Professor Stephen Pilling (Professor of Clinical Psychology and Clinical Effectiveness at University College London)
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Wednesday 23 April 2025
9:15am Private
9:30am Public
Community Mental Health Services - Oral evidence 23 April 2025
9:30am
  • Christina Taylor
  • Christian Taylor
10:00am
  • Peter Devlin (Director of Adult Social Care and Mental Health at Essex County Council, and Co-Chair of the Mental Health Network at ADASS (The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services))
  • Councillor Lorraine Francis (Chair of the Adult Social Care Committee at Bristol City Council)
10:45am
  • Penny East (External Relations Director at Think Ahead)
  • Stephen Parker (National Head of Service for Mental Health at Turning Point)
  • Duncan Tree (Director of Strategy and Relationships at Association of Mental Health Providers)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 12 March 2025
9:15am Private
10:00am Public
Community Mental Health Services - Oral evidence 12 March 2025
10:00am
  • Steve Forsyth (Chief Nursing Officer at Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Dr Lade Smith CBE (President at Royal College of Psychiatrists)
  • Dr Emma Tiffin (National GP Advisor Community and Primary Care, Adult Mental Health at NHS England and Associate Director Mental Health & Learning Disabilities at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board)
10:45am
  • Rt Hon Sir Norman Lamb (Chair at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Samantha Allen (Chief Executive at NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board)
  • Jane Yeandle (Service Group Director Mental Health and Learning Disabilities at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust)
9:30am
  • Eve Mair
  • Elizabeth Sutton
Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Contact us

We receive a significant number of emails each day. All requests and invitations are considered but we do not respond directly to everyone. Please be aware, the committee does not look at individual cases or specific complaints.

  • Email: hsccom@parliament.uk
  • Address: Health and Social Care Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA