Improving Scotland's Mental Health

As an amendment to motion S4M-09558 in the name of Jim Hume (Improving Scotland's Mental Health), leave out from "13,986 people" to end and insert "Scotland is the only country in the world to have introduced a waiting times target for access to psychological therapies; welcomes the increasing access to psychological therapies across Scotland and the progress that NHS boards are making in developing services, while recognising the challenges in delivering the target; notes that the Mental Health Foundation, Voices of Experience and Healthcare Improvement Scotland are currently doing the field work to deliver the commitment in the Mental Health Strategy for Scotland 2012-2015 to commission a 10-year follow up to the report, National Mental Health Services Assessment: Towards implementation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Grant report) to review the state of mental health services in Scotland, which will be published later in 2014, and notes that ‘see me’, Scotland’s programme to end mental health stigma and discrimination, has been refounded for the next three years.”