Crisis Resolution Teams

Mr. Hayes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the (a) role and (b) budget of each crisis resolution team.

Ms Rosie Winterton
Crisis resolution home treatment teams (CR/HT) are set up to engage with adults aged 16 to 65 years who experience severe mental illness with an acute psychiatric crisis such as schizophrenia, a manic or a severe depressive disorder. Patients are treated in the community, rather than as hospital in-patients to minimise any disruption to their lives.

Financial data on CR/HT teams is not collected centrally. Mental health strategies collect information on planned investment in adult mental health services for the Department. Planned investment in 2005-06 for crisis resolution/home treatment teams was £155 million.

The responsibility for providing and commissioning mental health services within the national health service rests with provider trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) respectively. It is for PCTs and provider trusts, in conjunction with their strategic health authorities to plan and develop services according to the needs of their local communities.