Wednesday 2 January 2019

Mental health: target to boost staff numbers by 21,000 set to be missed

Mental health: target to boost staff numbers by 21,000 set to be missed NHS mental health trusts in England employed just 1,524 extra personnel in past year

Ministers are on course to miss their target of increasing the number of mental health staff by 21,000 by 2020, according to NHS workforce figures obtained by Labour.

A year after the government made the pledge, NHS mental health trusts in England had employed just 1,524 extra personnel, according to statistics collected by NHS Digital. The Guardian

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