Question follow-through · 26510
Mental Health Services: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of staffing levels in NHS mental health inpatient settings.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 25 Sept 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of staffing levels in NHS mental health inpatient settings.
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Sept 2026
Answer published
The latest published NHS workforce statistics show that the National Health Service mental health workforce stands at 160,734 full-time equivalent staff (June 2026). However, the established national mental health workforce definition does not separately ...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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