Hafal’s Service User Champion has urged AMs and all those interested in protecting mental health services to ‘keep a check on promises made about mental health spending’.
Writing in her monthly Western Mail column Sue stated that although the Welsh Assembly Government has made a commitment to protect mental health services in its Draft Budget, Local Health Boards and local authorities will need to be held to account.
Sue writes: “It is often contentious to seek protection of one area of public spending over another.
“I think it’s right to argue the priority of people with a serious mental illness both on moral grounds – they are among the most vulnerable – and for the simple reason their dependence on public sector funding is much greater than other people’s.”
To read Sue’s column in full please visit: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health-news/2011/01/24/keep-a-check-on-promises-made-about-mental-health-spending-91466-28041133/
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