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The NHS is paying private firms an “eye-watering” £181m a year to look after people with serious mental health problems in units often hundreds of miles from their homes.
A shortage of NHS mental health beds in England means it is being forced to hand companies such as the Priory and Cygnet Health Care larger sums each year, official figures show.
The amount those firms receive to provide residential rehabilitation for those with high-level mental health needs has risen from £158m in 2016-17 to £181m last year – an increase of £23m. Their share of the money spent by NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on such care has also grown from 54% to 57% over the same period, a British Medical Association (BMA) investigation found.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...81m-care-patients-with-serious-mental-illness
A shortage of NHS mental health beds in England means it is being forced to hand companies such as the Priory and Cygnet Health Care larger sums each year, official figures show.
The amount those firms receive to provide residential rehabilitation for those with high-level mental health needs has risen from £158m in 2016-17 to £181m last year – an increase of £23m. Their share of the money spent by NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on such care has also grown from 54% to 57% over the same period, a British Medical Association (BMA) investigation found.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...81m-care-patients-with-serious-mental-illness
