NHS: Mental Health Services

(asked on 27th June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of one year’s transitional ring-fenced funding for NHS Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs to allow time for those hubs to source alternative funding.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 3rd July 2023

NHS England has secured funding for one year on a non-recurrent basis to support staff mental health and wellbeing hubs in 2023/24. Staff mental health and wellbeing hubs were established in October 2020 with funding subsequently extended to March 2023. They were funded on a non-recurrent basis in response to the pressure on the workforce from COVID-19. NHS England has identified further national funding to maintain support for staff mental health as part of the transition towards a sustainable model for staff health and wellbeing support which is based on a preventative, local level approach.

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