The Quality Healthcare commission has announced significant improvemetns in NHS standards, however, the key factors they are using to measure performance in the annual health check performance only applies to physical conditions such as;

-- Maximum 18 week waiting times
-- Availability of "Choose and Book"

Paul Corry, Director of Public Affaris at Rethink said:

"Its all well and good announcing that waiting times are down to 18 weeks which sounds great but waiting times for mental health sevices are not even meausered. Some of our members have waited 18 months for psychological therapy.

"Lets get some decent mental health measures into the successor body to the Healthcare Comission for a true picture of how the 1 in 4 people with mental illness are treated."

Rethink
http://www.rething.org