Mental Health Services: Nurses

(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many mental health nurses were employed in (1) community services, and (2) in-patient services, in the National Health Service in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 5th December 2014

Mental health nurses are not identified separately in the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s (HSCIC) workforce statistics. Mental health nurses work predominantly in psychiatric services but also across a range of settings and the independent sector.

The following table shows the full time equivalent number of nurses who work in the community psychiatry and other psychiatry areas of work in the National Health Service in each of the last five years. The data is taken from the HSCIC’s monthly workforce statistics and is for 31 August in each year.

Nurses working in Community Psychiatry and Other Psychiatry August 2010 to August 2014

Number of Full-time Equivalent Nurses in England as at 31 August

Area of Work

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Community Psychiatry

15,999

15,572

15,677

15,651

15,404

Other Psychiatry

25,372

24,517

23,649

22,977

22,405

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre

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