Mental health: target to boost staff numbers by 21,000 set to be missed

[Northerner]

Ministers are on course to miss their target of increasing the number of mental health staff by 21,000 by 2020, according to NHS workforce figures obtained by Labour.

A year after the government made the pledge, NHS mental health trusts in England had employed just 1,524 extra personnel, according to statistics collected by NHS Digital.

The very small rise is a setback for Theresa May’s plans to dramatically improve mental health care in order to reduce treatment delays, introduce new waiting times and reduce unmet need. Mental health chiefs and staff groups are worried that staffing problems will undermine those ambitions.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...boost-staff-numbers-by-21000-set-to-be-missed

 

[grovesy]

Not surprised.

 

[Madeline]

I’m not either, pure lip service.

 

[mikeyB]

Let’s not mince words, Madeline, it was a straightforward lie.

 

[Madeline]

Let’s not mince words, Madeline, it was a straightforward lie.

It was.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Let’s not mince words, Madeline, it was a straightforward lie.

It's (likely) a miserable failure a bit more than a lie?

Though I guess the lie would be the implied "we'll do something effective to try and increase the workforce by this number".