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<p>The Department does not collect data on whether National Health Service organisations,
who are responsible for helping their staff maintain and improve their physical and
mental health and wellbeing, provide confidential pastoral care. Some trusts may offer
local chaplaincy and/or counselling services to their staff.</p><p> </p><p>We are
supporting the NHS in making decisions on the type of services they offer their staff
including confidential pastoral care through the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework
and NHS Improvement’s health and wellbeing collaborative. Both incorporate the mental
health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’ commissioned
by the Government.</p>
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