Minister Hails Mental Health Service Success

Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis congratulated the NHS on major improvements in key mental health services today. His message came as he cut the turf to mark the construction of a new mental health unit at Runwell Hospital in Wickford, Essex. Latest figures show that, for 2007-08: - Specialist crisis resolution home treatment teams provided 106,000 home treatments, supporting people who would otherwise have had to be admitted to hospital.

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Filed under: Mental Health on June 30th, 2008