Mental Health Services: Recruitment
(asked on 13th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the document entitled, Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England, published by the NHS in July 2017, how many of the additional 19,000 mental health staff to be recruited by 2020 were employed by June 2020.
This question was answered on 24th July 2020
The mental health workforce has increased by over 9,500 (8.8%) between March 2017 (the baseline year for Stepping Forward, The Mental Health Workforce Plan for England) and March 2020.