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Concern over mental health 'funding crisis'

25 July 2014

Mental health is receiving just 10% of NHS spending across England, with some areas dedicating more like 6 percent of their budgets to it, Sky News can reveal. Charities say the figures ''paint a profoundly worrying picture'' and fly in the face of a Coalition promise to give mental health ''parity of esteem'' with physical health. They point to a London School of Economics (LSE) study that says the ''burden of disease'' of mental health is 23 percent.

The item was broadcast by Sky News on July 25, 2014
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