With regard to the Minister's letter of 17 August 2021 about Cardiff and Vale University Health Board mental health services, will the Minister provide a breakdown of funding provided for improvements as well as dates of when her officials met with the health board to discuss mental health targets?
The Welsh Government has provided Cardiff and University Health Board with over £3 million for mental health service improvements in 2020/21 and 2021/22: This is broken down as follows:
|
Centrally held Service Improvement fund (2020/21) |
Centrally held Service Improvement fund (2021/22) |
Crisis Care (all age) (2021/22) |
Specialist CAMHS (2021/22) |
Tier 0/1 (2021/22) |
|
£m |
£m |
£m |
£m |
£ |
|
1.007 |
0.931 |
0.532 |
0.479 |
0.200 |
Senior officials and I met with the Chair, Vice-Chair, Chief Executive, and members of the Senior Mental Health Management Team of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board on 23 August. In addition to this meeting, officials from the Mental Health Policy Team met with colleagues in the health board on 25 March to discuss performance and operational pressures across mental health services. The next meeting is planned for 10 November. These meetings support the formal cycle of performance meetings between the Welsh Government and the NHS which are held on a six monthly basis. Outside of these meetings, very regular dialogue continues between officials and the health board in relation to performance and operational pressures.
Officials also meet with all health boards on a monthly basis to understand the operational pressures faced across Wales in mental health services.