Police dropping most mental health calls ‘could cost NHS £260m’

By Emily Townsend2023-09-19T14:20:00

The national rollout of a new policing model scaling back officers’ responses to mental health incidents could cost the NHS around £260m, a trust chief executive has told MPs.

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