Autumn Budget 2017 and West Yorkshire and Harrogate funding.

Posted on: 22 November 2017

The Chancellor today announced that NHS services in England are to get extra money to help deal with the growing pressures with an immediate cash injection of £350m to help this winter. This will be followed by an additional £1.6bn next year on top of the £2.1bn rise that was already planned.

The Budget also provides £3.5 billion of capital investment for estates transformation, and improvement and efficiency schemes, so that the NHS can locally deliver more integrated care for people and better meet demand.

£2.6 billion of this funding will be for STPs to deliver transformation schemes that improve their ability to meet demand for local care. The Government has allocated 10% of this funding to 12 of the highest quality schemes with the strongest potential to help STPs meet future demand and develop local clinical and financial accountability. The rest of the £2.6bn will be allocated in due course.

Our STP is one of the 12 to be successful. We will receive funding for the bid we put forward for Leeds Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit scheme to provide a new specialist inpatient unit for young people.

This is really positive news and reflects our priority to invest and improve child and adolescent mental health services in the region. Alongside the “new models of care” work on specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and our mental health workstream, this funding will help secure the right services for children and their families.

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