Still Fudging Mental Health Funding

Government not funding comprehensive max waiting time standards in mental health – so discrimination will continue

— Norman Lamb (@normanlamb) March 29, 2016

#Mentalhealth: 25% of disease burden; but only 13% of #NHS spending and 6.5% of research funding; https://t.co/RZXnYJHGDN. Parity of esteem?

— James Murray (@drjameslmurray) March 28, 2016

 

Money To Money?

 “The less deprived parts of the country have a much higher prevalence of local voluntary organisations than the more deprived areas. Second, in the less deprived areas, there were many more organisations that did not receive any money from central or local government than those that did; in the most deprived areas, this pattern was reversed.”

Deprived areas have fewer charities and voluntary groups