Labour attacks government over ‘shocking’ English figures,which reveal workforce shrank as demand for services surgedThe number of specialist mental health nurses has fallen more than 10% over the past five years, the Guardian has learned, or putting the care of rising numbers of patients at risk.
The loss of one in 10 of the entire mental health nursing workforce in England has occurred mainly in hospitals and mental health units treating some of the sickest patients,official NHS figures reveal.
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Source: theguardian.com