Meeting of the Parliament 02 April 2014
The result of the division is: For 113, Against 4, Abstentions 0.
Motion, as amended, agreed to,
That the Parliament notes that one in four adults will experience mental ill health in their lifetime; recognises the enormous personal, social and economic costs of mental health problems, which are estimated to cost £10.7 billion per year in Scotland; further recognises that mental ill health is now the dominant health problem for people of working age, with it accounting for around 45% of all people not working due to ill health; notes that Scotland is the only country in the world to have introduced a waiting times target for access to psychological therapies; welcomes the increasing access to psychological therapies across Scotland and the progress that NHS boards are making in developing services, while recognising the challenges in delivering the target; notes that the Mental Health Foundation, Voices of Experience and Healthcare Improvement Scotland are currently doing the field work to deliver the commitment in the Mental Health Strategy for Scotland 2012-2015 to commission a 10-year follow up to the report, National Mental Health Services Assessment: Towards implementation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Grant report) to review the state of mental health services in Scotland, which will be published later in 2014, and notes that ‘see me’, Scotland’s programme to end mental health stigma and discrimination, has been refounded for the next three years.