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Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Baroness Walmsley (Liberal Democrat). It was answered on Wednesday, 16 November 2016.

Mental Health: Children and Adolescents

Question

My Lords, I welcome the mental health dashboards, which allow people to hold their local clinical commissioning group to account for how much it spends on mental health, including on children, and on the quality of the services that it

provides. However, can the Minister say how those dashboards are being publicised, and whether there is any way in which local people can benchmark the performance of their local CCG compared to others across the country?

Answer

My Lords, transparency is critical to this and every CCG will have its improvement assessment framework. Unless I am badly mistaken, they will all be in the public domain and it will be possible to look at the relative performance of each CCG. NHS England will also produce its own matrix and integrated dashboard, which will have all the key information about funding, the numbers of people accessing mental health provision and the improvements that those people achieve once they are in the system.

Secondary information

Type
Oral question
Reference
776 c1418 
Session
2016-17
Oral question type
Supplementary
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Children Mental health services Young people
Link
View this Oral question on hansard.parliament.uk