Mental Health Services: York

(asked on 25th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS (a) beds and (b) full-time equivalent staff there were for mental health services provided within the City of York Council area in 2010 and each subsequent year.


Answered by
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Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 4th October 2019

The latest available information for adult mental health services covering the City of York Council area, commissioned by the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provided by Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, is in the following table. Due to service reconfiguration, information is not available prior to October 2015.

Adult mental health services

Beds

Whole-time equivalent staff

October 2015

58

106.08

March 2016

48

111.68

March 2017

70

121.75

March 2018

70

137.07

March 2019

64

145.81

September 2019

60

115.31

Source: Vale of York CCG

In addition, NHS England has advised that it commissions 59 adult low-secure, eating disorder and psychiatric intensive care beds and 15 children and young people’s mental health beds in the City of York Council area. These are provided by Leeds and Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Historic numbers for beds and data on whole-time equivalent staff, are not available centrally.

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