The inquiry will focus on the experience of patients receiving mental health care in the community, with MPs examining what high quality care looks like from the point of view of adults with severe mental illness. It will also scrutinise the implementation and effectiveness since 2019 of the Community Mental Health Framework.  

Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, Layla Moran MP, said: ‘We want to examine what is missing from those services, who has access to high quality support and who is falling through gaps, and where there are examples of best practice that we can learn from. We know that community mental health care providers are under immense pressure, and in this inquiry we want to look at the interventions that would best enable delivery of high quality services.'

Moran said the inquiry would also look at how employment and housing support people's mental health and how different services can be integrated and built around the needs of patients as well as how best practice can be scaled up across the country.

‘Our committee wants to hear from people with lived experience and practitioners in the field,' Moran said. ‘We want to put patients, their families and communities at the heart of this inquiry, to understand what high quality care looks like from their point of view.'