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Mental health spending falls for first time in 10 years
15 August 2012
Spending in real terms on mental health has declined for the first time in a decade, a report for the Department of Health has found.
Although one of the coalition's first big policy announcements was to declare that mental health ought to have "parity with physical health in the NHS", investment in mental health for working-age adults dropped by 1%, once inflation is taken into account, to £6.63bn. For the elderly the recorded fall in real terms spending was 3.1% to £2.83bn.
The Department of Health has published two reports on the investment on mental health services:
More on the web: Department of Health
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