Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent mental health nurses have been employed by the NHS in each year since 2006-07.
Workforce statistics are regularly published by NHS Digital across all professions and are publically available at:
https://digital.nhs.uk/article/6679/2017
Latest figures requested specifically have been provided as follows:
As at May 2017 there were 7,034 (fte) clinical psychology staff, 8,805 psychiatrists (fte), and 38,807 mental health nurses (fte)