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Many parts of the NHS spend as little as 6.6% of their budgets on mental health, even though conditions such as anxiety and depression make up 23% of the service's overall burden of illness.
The disclosure has prompted claims that the NHS treats mental health as a second-class service and that patients in areas where few services are provided locally are receiving poorer care as a result.
Freedom of information requests to England's 211 GP-led local NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) by Luciana Berger, shadow public health minister, show that 72 of the 142 (67%) which responded spend less than 10% of their budget on mental health services.
Berger said the figures showed that people needing help were faced with an "alarming postcode lottery".
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/24/nhs-mental-health-second-class-service
The disclosure has prompted claims that the NHS treats mental health as a second-class service and that patients in areas where few services are provided locally are receiving poorer care as a result.
Freedom of information requests to England's 211 GP-led local NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) by Luciana Berger, shadow public health minister, show that 72 of the 142 (67%) which responded spend less than 10% of their budget on mental health services.
Berger said the figures showed that people needing help were faced with an "alarming postcode lottery".
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/24/nhs-mental-health-second-class-service