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16th December: Please find Below the latest VCS Newsletter for you to download
2nd November 2011 DH published the 10th report on Investment in Working Age Adult Mental Health and Older People’s Mental Health
The working age adult (WAA) mental health analysis provides the following overall key findings:
• Total investment in WAA mental health services in 2010/11 was £6.550 billion or £195.8 per head of weighted working age population.
• Total investment increased from £6.323 billion in 2009/10 to £6.550 billion which is a 3.6% cash increase and a real increase of 0.7%.
• Since 2001/02, the total investment, after allowing for inflation, has increased by 58.5% in real terms. At 2010/11 prices, £4.132 billion was spent in 2001/02 and £6.550 billion in 2010/11.
• Most Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) either maintained their investment in real terms or reported increases in investment of up to 4.7%. Three reported reduced investment of up to -0.8% (East Midlands, East of England and Yorkshire and the Humber).
The OPMH mental health analysis provides the following overall key findings:
• Total investment in OPMH services in 2010/11 was £2.859 billion or £344.7 per weighted head of population
• Total investment in OPMH mental health services rose by 3.8% from £2.753 billion in 2009/10 to £2.859 billion in 2010/11 in real terms or a cash increase of 6.9%
• 63% of the OPMH services in 2010/11 were commissioned by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and 37% reported commissioned by Local Authorities
• Investment within SHAs varied from a low of £ 261 investment per weighted head to a high of £493
The reports can be downloaded from:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_117488
New Health and Care Trust Launched 1st July
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
On 1 July 2011 the new Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust was established to deliver vast majority of services currently managed by Worcestershire Primary Care Trust's Provider Arm, as well as all those currently provided by Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership Trust.
Transforming Community Services concerns organisational change, rather than change to frontline services themselves. However, it is felt that a new combined trust will make it easier for patients to access the healthcare services that they need, and also that it will be sustainable and viable in the new environment for health services that will be created by the Government's White Paper.
http://www.worcestershire.nhs.uk/home.aspx
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