Psychological Professions
Project Scope
Participate in the Project
Further Information
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Psychological Professions Census Letter 2024
The Psychological Professions Workforce plan for England (December 2021) set out an ambitious but achievable programme to turn the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions into a lived reality for service users, families, and carers. The plan identified five strategic priorities: to grow the workforce; develop career paths; diversify the workforce; develop local, regional and national leadership; and to transform by embracing new ways of working. This commitment is reiterated in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan which sets out an ambition to grow this workforce by a further 24,000 - 26,000 WTE psychological professionals, approximately a further 100% growth from the ESR baseline at the time of publication of the LTWP.
The purpose of the census is to provide a comprehensive profile of the psychological professions workforce to support the delivery of national workforce strategies and build on the success of the 2023 census. It will provide details of the size of the workforce for each profession as well as profiling its diversity in terms age, gender, disability and ethnicity.
The scope will include staff working within the NHS (mental health, acute and community trusts), independent, voluntary and local authority sectors in England. Note it excludes staff working in NHS Talking Therapies services as these staff will be collected via the NHS TTad census and aggregated into this census to provide a comprehensive profile of the workforce.
Participants will receive a bespoke report outlining key messages and metrics, which compare local data against nationally reported positions.
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Please see the walkthrough event slides here
Please watch our data collection template walkthrough video here
Drop-in session 1 - Wednesday 17th April 13:00-13:30. Join here
Drop-in Session 2 - Thursday 25th April 11:30-12:00. Join here
Drop-in Session 3 - Wednesday 1st May 13:00-13:30. Join here
Drop-in Session 4 - Thursday 9th May 11:30-12:00. Join here
Drop-in Session 5 - Wednesday 15th May 13:00-13:30. Join here
Drop-in Session 6 - Thursday 23rd May 11:30-12:00. Join here
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National Reports
Download the national reports for Psychological Professions below.
National Report - Psychological Professions - 2023
Key Dates
Data collection opens:
27th March 2024
Data collection closes:
24th May 2024
Validation and analysis:
June - August 2024
Outputs:
National Report - October 2024
Participant Reports - November 2024
Any changes to dates will be updated here.