Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2017 to Question 111078, how many mental health staff, excluding support to ST&T staff, senior managers and managers, central functions and hotel, property and estates staff have been employed in the NHS in in (a) 2012-13; (b) 2013-14; (c) 2014-15; (d) 2015-16; and (e) 2016-17.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows full time equivalent figures for the specified mental health staff groups working in mental health and learning disability trusts in England from 31 July 2013 to 31 July 2017.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Specified staff working in the National Health Service at mental health and learning disability trusts or clinical commissioning groups as at 31 July each specified year (full time equivalent).
July 2013 | July 2014 | July 2015 | July 2016 | July 2017 |
130,209 | 130,650 | 130,639 | 132,314 | 133,497 |
Source: NHS Digital monthly HCHS workforce statistics