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<p>To deliver the mental health commitments in the NHS Long Term Plan and help reduce
waiting times, our aim is to grow the mental health workforce nationally by an additional
27,000 professionals by March 2024.</p><p>Accredited counsellors and psychotherapists
constitute a significant proportion of the NHS Talking Therapies workforce. A collaborative
campaign to encourage accredited counsellors and psychotherapists to apply to work
in NHS Talking Therapies services has been developed by NHS England with several of
the counselling and psychotherapy professional bodies. These professionals are a vital
part of our mental health workforce and are fully integrated within it, delivering
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended psychological therapies
for depression.</p>
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