
Require every ICB to establish one self-referral mental-health hub per 250,000 population, open 10 am–10 pm with no ID checks. Staff hubs, including lived-experience practitioners, offering same-day peer triage, one-hour support, medication reviews, and bookings into therapy or crisis teams.
Wes Streeting
Health Secretary
Fund and Implement a 24/7 National Mental Health Crisis Response Service
Increase funding for NHS counsellors and review current referral pathways
Fund free mental health condition prescriptions for all who need them
Subsidise cost of private therapy for those on NHS mental health waiting lists
Require every ICB to establish one self-referral mental-health hub per 250,000 population, open 10 am–10 pm with no ID checks. Staff hubs, including lived-experience practitioners, offering same-day peer triage, one-hour support, medication reviews, and bookings into therapy or crisis teams.
Fund and Implement a 24/7 National Mental Health Crisis Response Service
Increase funding for NHS counsellors and review current referral pathways
Fund free mental health condition prescriptions for all who need them
Subsidise cost of private therapy for those on NHS mental health waiting lists