The Scottish Government has consistently failed to meet its target of providing mental health treatment to young people within 18 weeks since its introduction in 2014. Freedom of Information requests reveal that the target has been missed for at least 43,000 young people, with a combined total of over 4 million days of delays.
The Scottish Government has never met its target for young people to begin mental health treatment within 18 weeks in the 10 years since it was introduced.
The Scottish Government set a target for young people to begin mental health treatment within 18 weeks in December 2014. In NHS Borders, waiting time target breaches are now more than ten times higher, rising from 1,680 days in 2019/20 to 18,200 days in 2023/24. NHS Lothian has recorded 1.3m days of treatment time breaches since April 2019.
“Scottish Liberal Democrats are the party of mental health. We want to invest in driving down waiting times so that we can install more counsellors in schools and roll out more mental health professionals in GP surgeries and A&E departments near to you.
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