Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the number of doctors working in (a) psychiatry and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the east of England.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics including data on psychiatrists and mental health services in the east of England which is available at the link below.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage medical schools to support the Royal College of Psychiatry Choose Psychiatry campaign; and what assessment he has made of workforce capacity to meet increased demand.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.
In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.
From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many additional medical places will be at medical schools with mental health as a priority.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.
In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.
From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage doctors to specialise in (a) psychiatry in general and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.
In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.
From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many unfilled psychiatry posts there are in the North East Hertfordshire constituency.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Data on the number of unfilled psychiatry posts in the North East Hertfordshire constituency is not available centrally.
NHS Digital collects data on the number of published vacancy adverts obtained from NHS Jobs, the main recruitment website for the National Health Service by Health Education England region. The number of advertised vacancy full-time equivalents within the Psychiatry Area of Work in Health Education East of England region as at 1 January 2017 - 31 March 2017 was 738.