Employers across the National Health Service are responsible for implementing a supportive, nurturing, learning culture enabling staff to thrive which will help improve and maintain their mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>
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Organisations are being supported by NHS England\u2019s NHS staff health and wellbeing framework which provides diagnostic tools and intervention options such as counselling and talking therapies to help trusts address staff mental health issues.<\/p>
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NHS England\u2019s 2017/19 Commissioning for Quality and Innovation incentive programme encourages trusts to provide services to improve staff mental health. To qualify for an incentive payment, trusts must demonstrate a 5% improvement or a 75% positive response rate in the percentage of staff suffering from work related stress plus one of the other two health and wellbeing related questions.<\/p>
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NHS England is also expanding its practitioner health programme, a mental health support scheme to help doctors across the NHS.<\/p>
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NHS Improvement is collaborating with 73 trusts to improve staff mental health by identifying 10 high impact actions to spread across the NHS including faster access to accredited occupational health services.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1585", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Hammond"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wimbledon"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Stephen Hammond"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-11-27", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-27T17:16:58.83Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "NHS: Staff"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to support the mental health well-being of NHS staff.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/308", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Coventry South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Jim Cunningham"} ], "uin" : "194582"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1012319", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1012319/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
In general, funding for mental health services, such as counselling, is the responsibility of local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Some CCGs may choose to use non-National Health Service providers, including those run by charities. It is up to the local CCG to make commissioning decisions.<\/p>
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The Department does directly provide funding to third sector organisations through the voluntary, community and social enterprise organisation (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Programme, which launched in 2016, replacing the previous VCSE grant funding and engagement programmes. A key part of the programme is the Health and Wellbeing Fund, and the theme for the Fund in 2019-20 is children and young people\u2019s mental health. More information can be found at the following link:<\/p>