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Mental Health Services: Recruitment

Commons · Question 6125 · Tabled 2 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Jul 2026

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Asked by Maya Ellis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Key target hit with 8,500 extra mental health workers in the NHS, published on 30 June 2026, what proportion of the additional mental healt

Answer

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill, 16 Jul 2026

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, the Government has delivered on its commitment to recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers by the end of this Parliament, ...