Investment in mental health: working age adult and older adult reports

Investment in mental health: working age adult and older adult reports:The Department of Health has published two reports on the investment on mental health services:

• the eleventh annual working age adult (WAA) (PDF, 1284K)
• the older adult mental health (OPMH) report (PDF,987K)

The eleventh annual working age adult (WAA) report presenting the results of the finance mapping exercise that provides details of the level of investment in mental health services for WAA (aged 18-64) in England for 2011/12 and compares it with the reported results in previous years.
The older adult mental health (OPMH) report provides details of the level of investment in mental health services covering people aged 65 and above, in England for 2011/12 and compares it with the reported results in previous years since 2006/07.
The adult mental health analysis provides the following overall key findings:

• Total investment in adult mental health services in 2011/12 was £6.629 billion or £198.3 per head of weighted working age population.

• Total investment increased from £6.550 billion in 2010/11 to £6.629 billion which is a 1.2% cash increase and a real decrease of 1.0%.
• The reported investment in the three traditional priority areas (Crisis Resolution, Early Intervention and Assertive Outreach) overall has fallen for the first time by £29.3 million. Only Early Intervention reported increased investment.
• Investment in psychological therapies increased significantly in real terms by 6.0% over the monies in 2010/11 and now forms 7.0% of direct services investment nationally.
• Five SHAs either maintained their investment in real terms or reported modest increases in investment ranging from 0.1% to 4.6%. Five reported reduced investment of up to 5.3% (London, North East, South Central, West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber).

The OPMH analysis provides the following overall key findings:

• Total reported overall cash investment in Older People’s mental health services fell by 1.00% from £2.859 billion in 2010/11 to £2.830 billion in 2011/12
• The   national   investment   per   weighted   head   of   population   for 2011/12 was £ 341.2
• Investment  within  Strategic  Health  Authorities  (SHAs) varied between  £269  and £483  investment  per  weighted  head of population
• 62% of the OPMH services in  2011/12  were commissioned by PCTs and 38%  were commissioned by Local Authorities

 Read previous National Survey of Investment in Adult Mental Health services reports