Mental Health Services: Staff
(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health staff have been employed in the NHS in each year since 2010.
The vast majority of mental health staff are employed by mental health and learning and disability trusts. The table below sets out NHS Digital data on the number of National Health Service staff (Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)) working in mental health and learning disability trusts in each year from July 2013 to July 2017. Figures begin in 2012/13 due to the changes in services resulting from the dissolution of primary care trusts in 2012/13.
The figures include all staff employed by mental health and learning and disability trusts, including professionally qualified clinical staff (e.g. doctors, nurses and health visitors and scientific, therapeutic and technical (ST&T) staff) and support to doctors, nurses and midwives, support to ST&T staff, senior managers and managers; central functions and hotel, property and estates staff.
Number of NHS staff in Mental Health and Learning Disability Trusts (FTEs) | ||||
July 2013 | July 2014 | July 2015 | July 2016 | July 2017 |
162,611 | 163,006 | 162,973 | 164,940 | 166,905 |
Source: NHS Digital, Monthly workforce statistics as at July: