Key Facts

• Amendments require annual statements on mental health service spending by 30 June each year.
• New clause requires assessment of whether expenditure on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services meets the aims of the NHS Long Term Plan.
• Clauses mandate reporting on changes in costs affecting health outcomes since Act's passage.
• Investment in mental health services has been neglected recently.
• Mental health patients are often sent hundreds of miles from home due to lack of local resources.
• Adults with eating disorders wait over three years for treatment.
• Children's mental health services account for just 8% of total mental health spending.
• On average, children and young people visit their GP three times before getting a referral.
• Over 130,000 referrals to specialist services have been turned down.
• Four hundred thousand children with mental health conditions are not receiving professional help.
• Mental health illnesses represent 23% of the total disease burden but receive just 11% of NHS England's budget.
• The Government plans an additional £2.3 billion a year for mental health by 2023-24, but the IPPR estimates this needs to be at least £16.1 billion.
• Northwick Park Hospital and its CCG are over £30 million in deficit, leading to cuts in community mental health services.
• The NHS trusts are £14 billion in debt to the Government.
• Trusts are predicting a £571 million in-year deficit.
• The maintenance backlog has risen to over £6.5 billion, an 8% increase from the previous year's £6 billion.
• High and significant risk represents 53% of the current backlog compared to 34% in 2013-14.
• Capital maintenance backlog is not being addressed without government intervention.
• Morecambe Bay Hospital has closed its day case theatre due to unsuitable environments for safe clinical care.
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn warns of a direct risk to life from roof issues.
• At Royal Derby Hospital, the children’s ward emergency buzzer system is failing.
• NHS Providers report suggests a need for multi-year capital settlement and alignment with comparable economies' investment levels.
• Performance targets such as 95% A&E patients seen within four hours have not been met since July 2015.
• The total number of people on waiting lists in England is now 4.41 million, which is the highest since records began.
• The target to treat 92% of patients within 18 weeks has not been met for four years.
• The target for treating cancer patients within 62 days of urgent GP referrals has not been met for five years.
• Research shows that almost 5,000 patients have died in the past three years due to long waits on hospital trolleys.
• Increased demand on A&E services is partly due to years of cuts to social care.
• The NHS Funding Bill is criticized for not providing certainty regarding inflation impacts on funding.
• Jeremy Hunt discusses new clauses to address mental health funding inadequacies.
• Steve Mallen set up the Zero Suicide Alliance in memory of his son Edward, who committed suicide due to severe mental illness.
• Targets introduced in the 2000s for A&E and elective care waiting times only covered physical healthcare.
• In 2012, a Labour amendment to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 instituted parity of esteem between mental and physical health in the NHS.
• The proportion of funding going into mental health has either stabilised or increased since the principle of parity of esteem was legislated.
• Twice a week in the NHS, multi-million pound settlements are signed off for families whose children have been disabled due to medical negligence.
• The number of such tragedies is not going down despite efforts.
• Transparency alone is not enough; changing practices and spreading best practice are needed.
• A no-fault compensation scheme was considered but deemed too expensive.
• The NHS Funding Bill aims to provide more money for the NHS in England and Scotland.
• Hospitals face delays in building projects due to management resource constraints.
• A central team at DHSC could help hospitals navigate hurdles in getting building projects off the ground.
• Hunt regrets not being able to build more hospitals during his tenure due to funding shortages.
• Maintenance issues, including leaking roofs and sewers, affect many hospitals.
• Winter crises cost £300m, £400m, £700m, £400m, and £400m over five years despite those funds.
• Training new doctors takes seven years, while training new nurses takes three years.
• The NHS Funding Bill has been certified as being only relevant to England.
• However, it will have implications for health spending policy across the whole of the United Kingdom.
• Labour's new clause 5 calls for an analysis of inflation effects on the figures in the Bill.
• The Labour party tried to amend the figures in the Bill but was restricted by House procedures.
• New clause 4 supports performance targets relevant to health spending per capita.
• Members from Scotland are prevented from voting on amendments that affect their constituents' interests.
• New clause 9 focuses specifically on mental health issues within the Bill.
• The proposal includes measuring inputs (funding) and outputs (improvements).
• There are challenges in gathering comprehensive data, particularly for rural and isolated communities.
• New clause 9 would require an annual report on mental health provision.
• The report would assess how individuals are identified as needing help and whether interventions are timely and effective.
• Morris supports including maternal mental health checks during six-week postnatal visits.
• The mental health workforce has had little growth over the last decade.
• The rate of unfilled NHS consultant psychiatrist posts in England has doubled in the last six years.
• Two-thirds of schools fund their own mental health support.
• Mental health support teams are present in 25 areas of the country.
• Hertfordshire was chosen as one of these areas with two mental health support teams piloting a hub-and-spoke model.
• The charity GRIT (Growing Resilience in Teens) is based in Hitchin and aims to build resilience among young people.
• Tilehouse Counselling, another charity in Hitchin, provides counselling services when CAMHS lacks capacity.
• New clause 2 focuses on the chronic underfunding of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
• A report by the Children’s Commissioner found that many Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) spend less than 1% of their mental health budget on children and young people.
• The CQC revealed that CCGs have prioritised adult mental health over CAMHS due to rationing needs.
• Subsection (2) aims to ensure accountability against the ambitions of the long-term plan for CAMHS spending growth.
• Regional variability in CAMHS funding ranges from 72p to £172 per child for low-level services and from £14 to £191 for specialist services.
• Lucy Allan's constituency and Shropshire have experienced significant capital investment.
• A proposal intended to transfer services from Telford to another community was valued at £312 million.
• The local community of Telford is expected to grow to 200,000 residents in the next decade.
• In 2018, 6,507 deaths were registered as suicides in the UK.
• Children as young as 12 are waiting over two weeks for mental health beds.
• One ward has some of the highest incidences of smoking and smoking during pregnancy.
• A ban on smoking in cars with children present led to a 75% drop in exposure to cigarette smoke.
• The constituency needs £100 million from the Government as guarantor to make the hospital project work.
• One in four adults will experience mental health illness in their lifetime.
• By 2023-24, at least an additional 345,000 children and young people under 25 will be able to access support via NHS-funded mental health services.
• £1.4 billion of funding is being provided for improving access to specialist services within the NHS.
• A new community support project in Fareham and Gosport run by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Princess Royal Trust For Carers aims to provide lower-level support to those who do not meet CAMHS eligibility criteria.
• The CQC reported that Southern Health trust should be rated as good, a vast improvement on previous years.
• The NHS long-term plan aims for a 50% reduction in stillbirths, maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and serious brain injuries by 2025.
• There is a shortage of midwives and neonatal capacity.
• Investment in anaesthetists during childbirth is crucial.
• Winterton welcomes the Bill's clarity on funding for hospitals like Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
• She mentions her personal experience with the NHS, including both positive and negative cases involving family members.
• The MP stresses that healthcare success is not solely about money but also involves organisation, people, motivation, workforce, demand, prioritisation, processes, and technology.
• The NHS Funding Bill guarantees long-term funding to implement the NHS Long Term Plan.
• It commits to a £33.9 billion increase for the NHS by 2023-24, bringing total spend to £148.5 billion.
• The plan allocates an additional £2.3 billion annually for mental health services in real terms by 2023-24.
• The NHS Funding Bill has two clauses with a substantive clause putting a double-lock duty on the Secretary of State and HM Treasury for £33.9 billion extra funding by 2024.
• New clauses focusing on allocation sufficiency are deemed unnecessary as Parliament already reviews NHSE’s budget.
• Capital-to-revenue transfers from capital revenue are being phased out, but flexibility is maintained.
• Mental health services are funded at £12.5 billion in 2018-19.
• Spending on mental health services will increase by an additional £2.3 billion by 2023-24 as part of the NHS long-term plan.
• The NHS long-term plan represents the largest expansion of mental health services in a generation.
• The amendment 2 was negatived by Ayes 163 and Noes 300.
• Standing Order 83W restricts voting rights in these Divisions to Members representing constituencies geographically situated in England.
• Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish MPs do not have the right to vote on this particular amendment.
• Rosie Winterton's statements are missing from the provided transcript.
• The debate includes points of order raised by other MPs about procedural issues and the impact on Scottish constituencies.
• New clauses were proposed but negatived, requiring the Secretary of State to report annually on NHS funding sufficiency.
• Conservative Members voted for the procedure in 2015.
• Pete Wishart holds the record for speaking most times in the Legislative Grand Committee for England over four years.
• Scottish MPs do not have the right to vote on the NHS Funding Bill.