Mental Health Services: Staff

(asked on 6th December 2017) - View Source

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.


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Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 14th December 2017

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

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