NHS has confirmed that expert mental health crisis centers will be opened in England in the next decade to reduce the congestion in accidents and emergency departments (A&E).

Ten Hospital Trusts are operating new assessment centers to deal with people who experience mental health crisis.

Its purpose is to get these patients for proper care in a calm environment, avoid waiting for a long time in A&E.

NHS England said that new units will reduce congestion in hospitals and relieve pressure on emergency services including police.

But Andy Bell, CEO of Center for Mental Health, said that any new provision needs to be funded properly.

The government is expected to expand at the national level for “dozens of places” as part of its ten -year NHS scheme.

These clinic walk-in patients as well as people referred to by GPS and police will be open, in which expert employees will be present to treat people in acute mental crisis.

Talking to The Times newspaper, NHS England chief Sir Jim McKay “carried forward the new model of Care”, where people “can get the right support in the right setting”.

“Along with relieving pressure on our busy A&ES, mental health crisis evaluation centers can speed up access to proper care, offer help to people to help them very soon so that they can stay out of the hospital.”

Andy Bell told the BBC breakfast that he was suspicious of the scheme as it was unused.

He said that it was impossible to separate physical and mental health problems, just calling different facilities to “carefully”.

Mr. Bell said, “We need to test the model strongly at every level, before we think of rolling it at the national level.”

For better funding of NHS mental health services, he said that the health expenditure share on mental health treatment was reduced last year and was ready to do so again.

A recent study of emergency care in England found that the number of people waiting for 12 hours or more in A&E was the highest since the modern records started after the decision to accept in a ward. It was 60,000 in January, or 11% of emergency entry.

The government announced the expansion of a plan last month to provide care and advice to GPS, without them, joining the long NHS hospital waiting list in England.