Mental health

Our Health and Public Services Committee has written to the Mayor’s Health Advisor, Pamela Chesters, about the importance of including mental health in the work programme of the London Health Improvement Board.

The Committee also wrote to NHS London about the need for regional oversight of mental health services from 2013 in order to share best practice and ensure consistency of approach.

The letters followed a public hearing on 13 December about the challenges facing mental health services in the capital as they deal with increased demand while the NHS has to find up to £20 billion of savings by 2015.