Mental Health Cuts
Posted on: Sunday, 26 March 2006, 03:03 CST
By Anonymous
Plans to cuts 3m from mental health services in Cambridgeshire have been put on hold after the proposals were referred for review. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trusts initially revealed the plans in January to help slash a budget deficit of 17m.
The proposals included the closure of several mental health units by March 2006 and the extensive downscaling of the Young People's Service in East Anglia, which treats 500 young people a year. However councillors in Cambridgeshire have referred the proposed cuts to secretary of state for health, Patricia Hewitt, for review. As permanent cuts cannot be authorised until the end the review process, it could now be several months before a decision is made.
Chair of the Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee, Counsellor Geoff Heathcock, said: 'Mental health services are all too often seen as a soft target, yet more and more of us are likely to be affected by these illnesses in our lifetime.
These financial difficulties should not be allowed to reduce the standard of healthcare provision so that it compromises patient care. It is senseless to cut services for the young; it simply stores up more problems for the individual and the family. In the long-term it is likely to end up causing more suffering and a greater financial burden on the NHS.'
Copyright Community Psychiatric Nurses Association Mar 2006
Source: Mental Health Nursing
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