Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provisions are in place to support and promote the mental wellbeing of psychology professionals within the NHS workforce.

Alistair Burt

NHS England’s Five Year Forward View draws attention to how National Health Service employers should look after their staff to stay healthy through new incentives, ensuring that guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on promoting healthy workplaces is implemented, particularly for mental health. The frontline work of our staff requires support, which is why both psychological wellbeing practitioners and high intensity practitioners have one hour of clinical supervision with an experienced trained supervisor per week. In addition, group supervision is available for longer sessions.