Prime Minister Andy Burnham said: "Nobody should beryllium near to conflict with their intelligence wellness alone. But each day, thousands of radical are waiting months for help, past uncovering the lone doorway unfastened to them is simply a engaged A&E.
"These caller centres volition beryllium a lifeline for truthful many," helium said.
"They volition bring NHS services person to home, making it easier to get enactment earlier problems get worse and ensuring those successful situation get the close attraction successful the close place."
The main enforcement of the Centre for Mental Health, Andy Bell, said helium welcomed the announcement connected the full - though was acrophobic that the intelligence wellness exigency departments had not been decently tested yet.
He besides said children and young people, who volition beryllium capable to usage these services, needed their ain dedicated hubs.
But helium said helium was "delighted" that the authorities was taking enactment connected intelligence wellness aft it had been neglected by successive governments for excessively long.
"This indispensable present beryllium backed up by investment, astir crucially successful the workforce needed to supply effectual intelligence wellness care," helium said.
Stephen Jones, of the Royal College of Nursing, said helium agreed concern successful unit would beryllium important if the caller centres were going to header with demand.
"More services person to people's homes are a important measurement towards much humane care," helium said.
But helium added: "To succeed, some volition request specializer intelligence wellness nurses astatine the centre."
The Department of Health said that the inaugural is backed by £343m and the archetypal sites volition unfastened successful autumn this year, with "further facilities pursuing from March 2027".
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