Mental Health Services: Staff
(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) activity coordinators and (b) psychotherapists supporting patients in acute psychiatric wards; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 27th January 2017
The number of activity coordinators and psychotherapists supporting patients in acute psychiatric wards is not held centrally.
However, the latest workforce data published by NHS Digital on 25 January 2017 showed that as at October 2016 there are 4,341 full-time equivalent psychotherapists working in the National Health Service, an increase of over 2,959 since May 2010.