The government has sacked an independent national health adviser for questioning in the Guardian whether the money for its mental health strategy was new or came from the existing NHS budget.
When Nick Clegg announced £400m to improve access to modern psychological "talking therapies" last Wednesday, David Richards, professor of mental health services research at the University of Exeter, told the Guardian that the money was not additional. Instead of being spent on training therapists, it could end up used to plug other gaps in the NHS, he said.
via guardian.co.uk
