LONDON'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

EDM number 522 in 1996-97, proposed by Jim Dowd on 12/02/1997.

That this House welcomes the recent publication of the report by the King's Fund entitled 'London's Mental Health'; notes that the report describes a service in inner London that cannot be sustained and which is unable to meet demands; is concerned that the report finds that no single service has a full range of desirable features; agrees with the report's conclusion that the crisis in inner London is not due to meanness among London's purchasers or to stick-in-the-mud attitudes among its providers but to lack of resources; that London is shown to have greater needs even than the socially deprived areas of other cities; and calls on the Secretary of State to review the formulae for allocating resources to deprived inner city areas.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.