Children in Care: CAMHS Waiting Times Debate
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Lord Stirrup
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Children in Care: CAMHS Waiting Times
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Lord Stirrup (CB)
My Lords, clinical staff are at crisis point throughout the NHS. What contribution are staffing levels in this area making to current waiting lists, and what is being done to address it?
Lord Markham (Con)
I do not know what contribution it is making to waiting lists. However, I do know that the long-awaited workforce plan—which noble Lords opposite have quite rightly asked me about many times, and I am very glad to say we are now producing it—will include these types of people as well, because they are clearly a very important component of the workforce that we need.