It provides child and adult mental health services, alcohol treatment, learning disability and eating disorder services.

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"We know that there has been an increase in mental health and learning disability places and the number of children's nursing places is set to increase also, " she said.

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It says that use of the independent sector represents 0.4% of the total acute spend (acute covers all spending on hospital services with the exceptions of maternity, care of the elderly, mental health and learning disability).

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