Mental Health Services: Recruitment
Commons · Question 54583 · Tabled 22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Calum Miller
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7208, what steps his Department has taken to help recruit 8,500 new mental health workers.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 10 Jun 2025
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, we are recruiting 8,500 mental health workers across child and adult mental health services to help ease pressure on busy services....