NHS to spend extra £1bn a year to tackle mental health crisis

Suicide prevention and community-based care to be made a national priority in five-year plan

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NHS England has announced a five-year plan to improve and expand mental health provision that will include investing at least an extra £1bn a year by 2020-21.

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