This BBC story was based upon our investigation of regulatory filings with Monitor and over one hundred Freedom of Information (FOI) requests submitted by our campaign.
These planned cuts were brought to the attention of over five million viewers of the BBC News at Six.
The Health Correspondent of the BBC, Sophie Hutchinson, reports:
Mental health trusts in England are forecasting significant cuts to their funding over the next four years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.
Data from three-quarters of trusts shows from 2014-15 to 2018-19 income is expected to fall by 8% in real terms.
The forecasts were submitted to regulators last summer – before extra money was promised in the last Budget.
But NHS England said accurate predictions could not be made until a new government set out spending plans.
The revelations come despite promises in recent years that mental health will be treated on a par with physical health services.
The figures seen by the BBC are from five-year plans submitted by 41 mental health trusts setting out what they expect their financial position to be in the coming years.
They show that funding for both adults and children’s services in 2014-15 was £5.86bn, but by 2018-19 that is expected to be £5.74bn – an 8% cut once inflation is taken into account.
But experts said the findings were still worrying. Anita Charlesworth, chief economist of the Health Foundation, said the cuts would pile more pressure on services that were under strain.
“What we are seeing is potentially real-terms resources falling, against a backdrop of growing need and already real concerns about whether there is the quality of care. And that’s not just a human imperative, but there’s a big economic cost to poor access to mental health services.”
Stephen Dalton, of the Mental Health Network, which represents trusts, said: “These figures won’t be a surprise to providers because they have been dealing with cuts to mental health services over the past five years. There is an institutional bias against mental health services.”
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