PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Staff (8 January 2024)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Ms Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour)
Answer
NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), the human resources system for the National Health Service. From this data, the attached tables present the number of full-time equivalent staff who have a job role recorded as being either trainee or qualified psychological wellbeing practitioner. Data is presented for each quarter from March 2015 to September 2023 split by the body employing the staff.
It is possible that some staff working as psychological wellbeing practitioners may be recorded against other job roles, therefore these figures possibly undercount the total number of staff involved. Differing recording practices may also limit how comparable figures for different trusts are.
Answered by:
Andrew Stephenson (Conservative)
17 January 2024
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