Mental Health Services: Recruitment

(asked on 24th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Health Education England’s Stepping forward to 2020-21: The mental health workforce plan for England, published in July 2017, what proportion of the new mental health workforce recruits he estimates will be occupational therapists.


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Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 30th November 2017

The breakdown of the overall increase in workforce that the ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England’ will deliver will be defined by local needs.

Health Education England is working with a number of partners, including National Health Service trusts, to assess demand and supply for clinical staff, including occupational therapists.

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