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<p>The Government asked Health Education England (HEE) to work across all health bodies
to develop a Mental Health Workforce plan, which was published in July 2017. ‘Stepping
forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England’ sets out concrete
steps to deliver 21,000 new posts (professional and allied) across the mental health
system, with the expectation that 19,000 of these places will be filled by staff employed
directly by the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>The document is available at
the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/mental-health"
target="_blank">https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/mental-health</a></p><p> </p><p>Health
Education England will take this plan into account as it continues to commission mental
health care training for professions such as clinical psychology, Improving Access
to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) professionals, general psychiatry, child and adolescent
psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.</p><p> </p><p>The expansion target for adult IAPT
professionals is 4,500 between 2016 and 2021. For children and young people’s IAPT
professionals, HEE will recruit and train 1,700 new professionals and train 3,400
existing NHS staff between 2016 and 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Across the NHS, there will
be an extra 10,000 training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
by 2020.</p>
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