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Mental Health Services: Staff

Question for Department of Health

UIN 55098, tabled on 28 November 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has considered the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on delivering the required growth of the mental health workforce in England set out in the Five Year Forward View.

Answered on

6 December 2016

Department of Health officials are working together with officials at the Department for Exiting the European Union to ensure that the workforce implications for the National Health Service and care sectors are considered as part of the discussions around leaving the EU.