Covid-19 crisis makes it ‘right time’ to up spending on mental health, Ross says
Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross (Andrew Milligan/PA)
Tories are pledging to increase funding for mental health services by hundreds of millions if they win May’s Holyrood election.
Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has revealed his party’s manifesto for that vote will include a pledge to ensure mental health care gets 10% of the NHS budget.
Currently just over 8% of health service spending goes to this area, the Tory said, adding that increasing it to 10% could increase funding levels by approximately £325 million.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has already called for mental health care to receive a tenth of the NHS budget – with Mr Ross arguing the coronavirus pandemic meant this was the “right move at the right time”.
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