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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, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The
following table shows the number of mental health and learning disability nurses,
full time equivalent (FTE) employed in the National Health Service as at September
each year along with the latest figure as of July 2020.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Mental health nurses (FTE)</p></td><td><p>Learning disabilities nurses
(FTE)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>40,247</p></td><td><p>5,137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2011</p></td><td><p>39,024</p></td><td><p>4,667</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2012</p></td><td><p>38,135</p></td><td><p>4,311</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2013</p></td><td><p>37,397</p></td><td><p>4,035</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2014</p></td><td><p>36,581</p></td><td><p>3,776</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2015</p></td><td><p>35,671</p></td><td><p>3,577</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2016</p></td><td><p>35,488</p></td><td><p>3,442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2017</p></td><td><p>35,390</p></td><td><p>3,305</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2018</p></td><td><p>35,835</p></td><td><p>3,234</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2019</p></td><td><p>36,696</p></td><td><p>3,186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2020</p></td><td><p>37,421</p></td><td><p>3,217</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital - July 2020</p><p>Notes:</p><p>Mental
health and learning disability service provision is also commissioned by the NHS from
private sector providers. The figures do not reflect staffing in the private sector.</p><p>Further
information, including on different methodologies for counting the mental health workforce,
is published by NHS Digital at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/december-2018"
target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/december-2018</a></p>
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