Claim: CCGs increased their spending on mental health by 6.3% last year while their overall funding increased by 3.7%.
Fact-check: NHS spending on mental health - Full Fact
Verdict: this is the increase in spending by ccgs on mental health compared to their overall core services budget allocation. the figures don't account for inflation. factoring that in, mental health spending went up by 3.9% over that time and overall ccg budgets went up by 1.5%.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2017-12-19T00:00:00