Luciana Berger MP, Shadow Public Health Minister, responding to the Royal College of Nursing’s report on mental health services, said:
 
“These findings demonstrate just how much mental health services have gone downhill under David Cameron.
 
“This Tory-led Government promised that physical and mental health services would be treated with the same importance but instead all we have seen is a drop in the number of mental health nurses, a loss of over 1,500 mental health beds and seriously ill people not getting the help that need.
 
“This is completely unacceptable. Only Labour has a plan to put mental health at the heart of our NHS. We will do this by integrating mental health, physical health and social care into one system that treats the person as a whole rather than one symptom at a time. We will invest in an additional 20,000 nurses, including mental health nurses by 2020 to ensure the NHS is fit for the 21st century.”
 
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