Armed Forces: Mental Health Services
(asked on 29th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) permanent and (b) non-permanent staff were employed in (i) Departments of Community Mental Health and (ii) other secondary mental health care services in the Armed Forces at the end of each financial year since 2009-10; and what the ratio of military staff to civilians in those services was in each of those years.
The table below shows the numbers of Regular, Reserve and Civilian permanent staff employed in the Defence Medical Services since 2011. We do not hold the data requested for 2009 and 2010. It is not possible to break down the figures into those employed in Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs) and elsewhere within the Defence Medical Services.
Non-permanent staff such as locums may have been employed during this period to fill temporary vacancies and staff absences, such as operational deployments. It has not been possible to obtain verified figures for these within the timescale available.
| Regular | Reserve | Civilian |
2011 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 10 | ~ | Not available |
Psychologist | 0 | 0 | Not available |
Mental Health Nurse | 120 | 50 | Not available |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | Not available |
| 130 | 50 | 0 |
2012 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 20 | ~ | Not available |
Psychologist | 0 | 0 | Not available |
Mental Health Nurse | 120 | 30 | Not available |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | Not available |
| 140 | 30 | 0 |
2013 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 10 | 10 | 5 |
Psychologist | ~ | 0 | 10 |
Mental Health Nurse | 120 | 50 | 10 |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 130 | 60 | 35 |
2014 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 10 | ~ | 5 |
Psychologist | ~ | 0 | 10 |
Mental Health Nurse | 120 | 40 | 10 |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 130 | 40 | 35 |
2015 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 10 | ~ | 5 |
Psychologist | ~ | 0 | 20 |
Mental Health Nurse | 110 | 40 | 20 |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 120 | 40 | 55 |
2016 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 15 | ~ | 5 |
Psychologist | ~ | 0 | 25 |
Mental Health Nurse | 105 | 50 | 15 |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 120 | 50 | 85 |
2017 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 15 | ~ | Not available |
Psychologist | 0 | 0 | Not available |
Mental Health Nurse | 90 | 45 | Not available |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | Not available |
| 105 | 45 |
|
2018 |
|
|
|
Psychiatrist | 15 | ~ | 5 |
Psychologist | 0 | 0 | 25 |
Mental Health Nurse | 85 | 50 | 40 |
Social Worker | 0 | 0 | 45 |
| 100 | 50 | 115 |
The tilde (~) denotes a number less than five.
Figures are rounded to the nearest five.