
NHS workforce: number of mental health nurses in HCHS 2009-2022
As of November 2022, over 38.9 thousand mental health nurses worked for the NHS in England. From 2016 to 2022, the number of mental health nurses in England's NHS Hospitals and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce increased. Conversely, the number of mental health nurses generally decreased from 2009 to 2016.