{"id":30137,"date":"2025-05-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=30137"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:55:32","slug":"cqc-survey-reveals-ongoing-challenges-in-community-mental-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2025\/05\/05\/cqc-survey-reveals-ongoing-challenges-in-community-mental-health-services\/","title":{"rendered":"CQC Survey Reveals Ongoing Challenges in Community Mental Health Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Care Quality Commission&#8217;s (CQC) 2024 Community Mental Health Survey highlights persistent issues within NHS community mental health services in England. Key findings include:\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Access and Waiting Times<\/strong>: 40% of respondents did not receive support while waiting for their first appointment, and 42% reported that their mental health deteriorated during this period.\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Crisis Care<\/strong>: While 78% knew who to contact during a crisis, 27% did not receive the help they needed, and 47% reported that their families or carers were not offered support during such times.\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Care Planning and Involvement<\/strong>: Over a third (38%) did not have a care plan, and 43% had not had a review meeting to discuss their care. Additionally, 36% reported having no choice in how their care was delivered. \u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Support for Broader Needs<\/strong>: Significant numbers of respondents did not receive help or advice for joining community activities (44%), finding work (69%), or accessing financial advice or benefits (67%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These findings underscore the need for comprehensive improvements in community mental health services to ensure timely access, effective crisis support, and holistic care planning.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full report: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cqc.org.uk\/publications\/surveys\/community-mental-health-survey\">CQC \u2013 Community Mental Health Survey 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Care Quality Commission&#8217;s (CQC) 2024 Community Mental Health Survey highlights persistent issues within NHS community mental health services in England. Key findings include:\u200b These findings underscore the need for comprehensive improvements in community mental health services to ensure timely access, effective crisis support, and holistic care planning.\u200b Read the full report: CQC \u2013 Community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2025\/05\/05\/cqc-survey-reveals-ongoing-challenges-in-community-mental-health-services\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CQC Survey Reveals Ongoing Challenges in Community Mental Health Services&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,19,37,39,52,53,141,252,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-anxiety-disorder","category-care-pathways","category-care-quality-commission","category-community-care","category-community-mental-health","category-mental-health","category-statistics","category-therapy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30138,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137\/revisions\/30138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}