Meeting of the Parliament 02 April 2014
It is important that we build on the good progress that we have made in recent years in order to reduce discrimination against and stigma towards mental ill health.
We are making good progress on the commitments set out in the mental health strategy and in improving access to services. I do not underestimate the challenges that we face and I always welcome the Parliament’s interest in mental health issues.
I move amendment S4M-09558.2, to leave out from “13,986 people” to end and insert:
“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.”
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