Psychiatric Nurses

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

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)

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