The college says that since 2017, there has been a 30 per cent increase in vacant or unfilled consultant posts in England, with child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as eating disorders psychiatry showing the highest number of vacancies.
It adds that across England every region is failing to meet the government’s target for 95 per cent of urgent and routine patients to be seen within one and four weeks respectively, after referral.
It notes that a “postcode lottery” of funding for services “could determine how quickly you’re seen” despite the number of children and young people receiving urgent and routine care increasing by 66 per cent and 48 per cent respectively since 2019.
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