Lord Carter’s review into unwarranted variations in mental health and community health services (NHS England, last updated 24 September 2018)

Summary

Lord Carter’s review identifies unwarranted variation in the delivery of mental health and community health services, as well as the potential savings of nearly £1 billion that could be made in efficiencies by 2020/21.

Content

Following Lord Carter’s 2016 review into the operational productivity of acute non-specialists trusts, the mental health and community sectors requested a similar review into its services to help them understand what good looks like. As well as what improvements could be made to deliver good quality, better value services for their patients.

Each provider demonstrated some area where they are performing well, but across mental health and community sectors, there is still unwarranted variation which if eliminated could save the NHS nearly £1 billion in efficiencies by 2020/21.