Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on staffing levels in (a) secure adult inpatient mental health units and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Tier 4 inpatient units for each year since 2010.
Precise information on numbers of staff in secure adult inpatient mental health units and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Tier 4 inpatient units is not collected centrally.
However, NHS Improvement updated ‘Safe, sustainable and productive staffing in mental health services’ on 30 January 2018 Guidance to standardise safe, sustainable and productive staffing decisions in mental health services.
The guidance outlines that the annual review of safe sustainable staffing references benchmarking data available to the organisation (both internal and external). The guidance can be viewed via the following link:
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/safe-staffing-mental-health-services/