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.
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.