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<p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics.
These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups,
but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local
authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>In England, 23,686<sup>1 </sup>mental
health staff left the National Health Service between June 2017 and 31 May 2018, headcount.</p><p>
</p><p>The figure above provides the widest possible view of the mental health workforce
available from NHS Digital and includes:</p><p>- All staff in mental health, learning
disability and care trusts;</p><p>- Psychiatry doctors;</p><p>- Nurses specialising
in “community psychiatry”, “other psychiatry”, “community learning disabilities, “other
learning disabilities”; and</p><p>- Staff with a primary area of work of “psychiatry”,
for example a paediatrician whose primary area of work is ‘psychiatry’.</p><p> </p><p>Data
for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust is not available on the Electronic Staff Record and therefore, not
included in the figure above.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><sup>1</sup>Source: NHS
Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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