Getting the balance right: how to achieve parity between physical and mental health services
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Getting the balance right: how to achieve parity between physical and mental health services

Kimberley Hackett @kj_hackett
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Cash shortages and unsafe staffing levels are stopping the government achieving ‘parity of esteem’ between physical and mental health, according to a recent King’s Fund report

In 2013, the investment to boost mental health services consisted of the government committing an extra £1.25 billion for child and adolescent mental healthcare and £1 billion to support the delivery of its national strategy for adult mental health.

Mental Health Practice. 21, 6, 10-11. doi: 10.7748/mhp.21.6.10.s10

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05 March 2018 / Vol 21 issue 6

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