Our NHS is the envy of the world, and we will fund it properly, deliver equal care for mental health and join up health and care services.

One in four of us will experience mental health problems, but for decades mental health has been the last in the queue for funding and attention. In 2012, we called a halt to this and wrote equality for mental health into law. Liberal Democrats have invested more than £500 million in talking therapies and help for people with eating disorders and introduced the first ever waiting time standards in mental health. We will increase mental health spending by £500m a year by 2016/17 – half of which we delivered in this year’s Budget.

We will build integrated care services that fit around people’s lives, with more personal budgets so people can design services for their own individual needs. We believe this should happen from the bottom up, suiting the needs of local communities.

The Liberal Democrats will put an extra £8 billion a year into the NHS by 2020. We will raise NHS spending by £1 billion a year above inflation until we’ve balanced the books in 2018, funded by scrapping the Tory ‘shares for rights’ scheme, increasing dividend tax on the highest earners and tightening the cap on pension tax relief. Once we’ve eliminated the deficit, we’ll raise the NHS budget in line with economic growth, so that it will be getting at least an extra £8 billion a year by 2020.

To ensure the NHS is safeguarded for the long term, we will commission a non-partisan Fundamental Review of NHS and social care funding.