Mental Health Services: Recruitment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made towards recruiting the additional mental health workforce.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future and that is there when people need it, in February, the Government delivered on its commitment to recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers this Parliament, three years ahead of schedule.
Between 30 June 2024 and 31 March 2026, the mental health workforce has grown by 8,948 full time equivalents.
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