We further recommend that NHS England & Improvement hold Clinical Commissioning Groups, which have consistently failed to meet national expectations, to account on key measures such as expenditure, waiting times and access rates. National ambitions should be raised in line with the best performing areas so that best practice becomes universal practice. This is essential to ensuring that provision of children and young people’s mental health services does not remain a ‘postcode lottery’.

We further recommend that NHS England & Improvement hold Clinical Commissioning Groups, which have consistently failed to meet national expectations, to account on key measures such as expenditure, waiting times and access rates. National ambitions should be raised in line with the best performing areas so that best practice becomes universal practice. This is essential to ensuring that provision of children and young people’s mental health services does not remain a ‘postcode lottery’. Type: recommendation | Number: 9 | Paragraph: 57 | Response status: partially_accepted Government response: 67. We accept this recommendation in part. 68. Following publication of the NHS LTP and the Mental Health Implementation Plan, in January and July 2019 respectively, Health Education England ( HEE ) has been working with the department, NHSEI , the Department for Education, and other partners, to im