MP demands reversal of mental health budget cuts

MENTAL health campaigner Angela Rayner MP is demanding that major cuts to services are reversed immediately.

The Failsworth MP is patron of the Labour Mental Health campaign and has written to every clinical commissioning group in Greater Manchester to demand improvement in mental health services.

The demand follows new information which shows local spending on mental health services is set to be cut this year, despite the Government promising to increase spending. Oldham CCG is cutting spending by 0.2 per cent.

Mrs Rayner said: “These percentage figures may seem small but they represent hundreds of thousands of pounds which are being cut from multi-million pound budgets.

“I am now demanding that they reverse these cuts and improve our struggling mental health services.

“Without an increase some of the most vulnerable patients in our community will be left suffering without the help they need.”