Question follow-through · 11958
East London NHS Foundation Trust: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of mental health specialists in the East London NHS Foundation Trust.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 8 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of mental health specialists in the East London NHS Foundation Trust.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
To address the current mental health workforce shortages in trusts, like the East London NHS Foundation Trust, we plan to recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers across child and adult mental health services, to reduce waiting times and provide ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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