Growing pressures on access and staffing risk creating ‘perfect storm’ for people using mental health and learning disability services

Growing pressures on access and staffing risk creating ‘perfect storm’ for people using mental health and learning disability services The Care Quality Commission’s annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England shows that quality ratings have been maintained overall – but people’s experience of care is determined by whether they can access good care when they need it.

This year’s State of Care considers the pressures faced by health and social care as a whole – but focuses particularly on inpatient mental health and learning disability services, the area where CQC is seeing an impact on quality.

While the overall quality picture for the mental health sector, which includes community mental health services, remains stable, this masks a real deterioration in some specialist inpatient services which has continued after 31 July 2019, the cut-off point for the data included in the report. Care Quality Commission

See also:

• The state of health care and adult social care in England 2019/19 Care Quality Commission
• Care Quality Commission presents mixed picture of the state of care in England The Health Foundation
• The King's Fund responds to the Care Quality Commission's State of care report The King's Fund
• More than half of A&Es 'not good enough' BBC News
• Half of NHS A&E departments 'are inadequate or require improvement' The Daily Mail
• More than half of A&Es now failing as breakdowns in non-emergency care sees flood of desperate patients The Daily Telegraph
• More than half of A&Es provide substandard care, says watchdog The Guardian
• A&Es may struggle to cope this winter as most are ‘inadequate’ or ‘require improvement’, inspectors say The Independent