Petition Make mental illness as important as physical illness by increasing NHS funding.

We all know that when it comes to NHS cuts, the treatment of mental illness is always the first in line.

You wouldn't leave a broken leg for weeks before getting it fixed, so why do life threatening illnesses of the mind have little to no importance in our society?

More funds will save lives!

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How many people could be saved if there were sufficient funding?

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-07-27/revealed-tens-of-millions-slashed-from-mental-health-budgets/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32596748

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Suicide/Pages/Causes.aspx

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

26 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 26 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 1 May 2016
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