Press release: NHS Confederation backs conclusion of CHI mental health report
18 Dec 2003
The NHS Confederation today backs the Commission for Health Improvement's report into NHS mental health services as an accurate snap shot of the important developments in NHS mental health and the challenges still facing the service.
Dr Gill Morgan, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: "This report makes a valuable contribution by highlighting the truth of the current state of NHS mental health services. It reflects what our members have been saying. Major improvements have been made and staff deserve recognition for this progress. However, mental health is still not receiving the attention or investment it needs within the NHS. Although there is a growing appreciation of this, steps still need to be taken to reduce the gap between rhetoric and reality. We now need to place as much emphasis on improving mental health as we have had on cutting waiting lists."
ENDS
Notes for editors
- The NHS Confederation represents the organisations that make up the NHS. Our members include the majority of NHS trusts, primary care trusts and health authorities in England; trusts and local health boards in Wales; trusts and NHS boards in Scotland; and health and social services trusts and boards in Northern Ireland.
Contact details
- Contact Media Relations Manager Joanna Clason on 020 7074 3306 or 07798 571078 or Senior Media Officer Amy Darlington on 020 7074 3304 or 07767 770309. For out of hours media enquiries, please call the Duty Press Officer on 07880 500726.
Back to media centre
