Mental Health Services: Recruitment

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made towards meeting the target of having over 1,500 mental health therapists in primary care by March 2019; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 25th March 2019

Data for the workforce providing mental health therapy services in the community via the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme are available from the 2015 IAPT Workforce Census, which recorded 8,588 IAPT staff (by headcount, equivalent to 7,205 full time equivalents) as at 30 April 2015.

More recent data are not available.

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