Petition Get the government to invest more money in mental health to lower waiting times.

Currently the wait to receive mental health treatment for mental illness is approximately 56 weeks (or more), without interim support, where people are now in & out of the crisis team at A&E more & more. Funding needs to increase & the waiting times need to come down before people turn to suicide!

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1 in 4 people at some time in their life will be diagnosed with a mental health issue. However, 75% of those 1 in 4 will be left in the system for over a year to struggle on their own without access to interim support.

http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/statistics-and-facts-about-mental-health/how-common-are-mental-health-problems/

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

41 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 41 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 6 October 2016
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