Some twelve per cent of staff – around 17,000 - left the NHS mental health workforce in 2021/22, up from around 14,000 a year pre-pandemic, the report states.
“Increased workload is leading to burnout for remaining staff, which contributes to a higher rate of staff turnover and a resulting vicious cycle of more staff shortages,” it adds.
The PAC is warning that such staff shortages are “constraining the improvement and expansion of NHS mental health services” despite the proportion of 17– to 19-year-olds with a probable mental disorder more than doubling from 10 per cent in 2017 to 26 per cent in 2022.
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