This project was completed in December 2010.
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In brief
- The NHS is facing the most significant financial challenge in its history. Even with the small increases in funding announced in the government's Comprehensive Spending Review, substantial productivity improvements will be needed if the NHS is to continue improving the quality of patient care and respond to demographic change and other cost pressures.
- Mental health has seen relatively large increases in funding over the past decade, partly as a response to historic under-investment. As a large area of spending, now accounting for more than 12% of primary care trusts’ commissioning budgets, the mental health sector will need to play a key part in responding to the financial challenge, both by improving productivity within mental health care, and also by helping other parts of the NHS achieve better value for money.
- As part of The King’s Fund’s Quality in a Cold Climate programme, we examined opportunities to re-design mental health services in order to improve productivity without sacrificing quality of care. The objective of our work is to help mental health commissioners and providers identify areas in which it may be possible to deliver mental health services in a different, more cost-effective way.
- This project is being conducted in partnership with the Centre for Mental Health, and with support from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.
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