Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study

Objectives To investigate whether the rate of spend on child and adolescent mental health is influenced by demand for other competing services in local commissioning decisions. Design Analysis of spend data by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), including other publicly available data to control for variation in need. Setting Local commissioning decisions in the National Health Service. Participants Commissioning of health services across 209...