Member

134: After Clause 50, insert the following new Clause— “General duty to secure sufficient resources for services in the community(1) It is the general duty of integrated care boards to ensure, insofar as is reasonably practical, that services in the community responsible for delivering care, treatment, or detention provisions under the Mental Health Act 1983 and this Act have the necessary resources, including financial support, to meet service demands.(2) Additional forms of resource may be determined by integrated care boards in consultation with relevant local authorities or health care service providers and may include—(a) sufficient numbers of trained medical professionals;(b) purpose-built facilities for patient care;(c) community services responsible for out-patient care.”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment places a general duty on integrated care boards to ensure that services in the community have the necessary level of resource to meet demand on services to ensure that the provisions of the bill function as intended.