PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Staff (8 January 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of (a) clinical and (b) non-clinical staff employed in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services by NHS provider in each quarter between 2015 and 2023.

Asked by:
Ms Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour)

NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. From this data, the attached tables present the number of full time equivalent clinical and non-clinical staff who have an area of work recorded as ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)’. Data is presented for each quarter from March 2015 to September 2023 split by the body employing the staff.

It is likely that some staff working on IAPT may be recorded against other areas of work, therefore these figures likely 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)
18 January 2024