Dan Neville
Question:634. Deputy Dan Neville asked the Minister for Health the expenditure on mental health services as a percentage of the overall health services expenditure in each of the years 2005 to 2012 inclusive [52333/12]
View answerTuesday, 27 November 2012
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Details of the overall gross non-capital health and mental health budgets are published annually in the Revised Book of Estimates. Based on that information, the following table details the mental health budget as a percentage of the total non-capital health budget for each of the years 2005 - 2012 inclusive:
|
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
|
7.0% |
8.3% |
7.8% |
7.3% |
6.9% |
6.8% |
5.3% |
5.8% |
About 1 in 4 people will experience some mental health problems in their lifetime, approximately 90% of mental health problems are dealt with in primary care and some 30% of people who attend primary care have a mental health problem and expenditure on these services is not captured in the mental health budgets or the percentages above.