Mental Health Services: Recruitment

(asked on 9th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the supply of qualified and experienced counsellors and psychotherapists to meet the severity and range of mental health problems experienced by people across the country.


Answered by
Lord Markham Portrait
Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th November 2023

The NHS England Workforce, Training and Education directorate has developed a pilot programme to train graduates to become fully accredited psychotherapeutic counsellors who are qualified to work in NHS Talking Therapies services, providing therapies for depression recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). This is a fully funded education pathway where trainees are salaried and their full tuition fees funded by the National Health Service. Counsellors and psychotherapists are also contributing to other pathways across the range of severity and types of mental health problems, where they have the required qualifications to deliver the relevant NICE recommended treatments.

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