Lambeth Living Well Network Alliance Progress Report 2024-25

Our year in numbers

£92.2m
The Alliance’s budget for 2024/25 to provide mental health services
243,100
the estimated working age population (18-64 inclusive)
£379
per person per year

4,000 people with serious mental illness in the borough, the highest in the country and three times the national average. Lambeth also has the fifth highest levels for diagnosed psychosis in the country, and is in the top 25% for common mental illnesses.

(1. GLA Housing-Led mid-2021 Estimate)

Acute hospital admissions

97.7
average number of beds used in 2024/25
15%
up from 85.3 beds in 2023/24

Single Point of Access

6,288
Number of introductions
12%
down from the previous year

Crisis Outreach Service

370
Number of introductions
53%
up from 242 in 2023/24

Lambeth also has the fifth highest levels for diagnosed psychosis in the country, and is in the top 25% for common mental illnesses.

Tree House (24-7 supported housing)

16
People helped
6%
down from 17 in 2023/24
1,830
Estimated hospital bed days saved
6%
down from 1,957 days in 2023/24

Mental health Social Services

120
New assessments carried out
15%
down from 141 in 2023/24
441
Open safeguarding cases
13%
down from 509 in 2023/24

Focused Support Service

731
Number of introductions
3%
up from 710 in 2023/24
294
Number of people discharged
12%
down from 335 people discharged in 2023/24

Talking Therapies Services

6,904
People completing treatment (8% over a target of 6,396)
7%
down from 7,539 in 2023/24 (7% over target of 7,044)
50%
People reliably recovered, against a target of 48%

(3. Our target is 50%)

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