Government has committed to scaling up community musculoskeletal (MSK) hubs in England to enable people to access treatment and provide free access to digital support tools hosted on the NHS website and app.
Its is also widening help for those with mental health conditions, at a combined cost of £400m over the next five years.
The plans confirmed in Budget documents today feature alongside further help for people suffering MSK conditions in the form of new employment advisers to help individuals with those conditions return to or remain in employment in England.
Government plans to expand individual placement and support which aids people with severe mental illness into employment.
And in order to ease access to treatment, government revealed plans to modernise and digitise mental health services in England.
These will provide wellness and clinical grade apps free at the point of use, pilot cutting-edge digital therapies, and digitise the NHS Talking Therapies programme, HM Treasury said.
It also committed to digitising the NHS Health Check in England to identify cardiovascular conditions in a bid to improve health outcomes.
Plans were announced to make £10m available for a grant fund for suicide prevention voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in England across 2023-24 to 2024-25 to support people experiencing suicidal thoughts or approaching a mental health crisis.
