Improving NHS mental health services

This report finds that mental health service staff shortages are holding back mental health services from improving and expanding. 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. The Public Accounts Committee calls on the NHS to address the fact that staff increases are being outpaced by the rise in demand for services. Mental health services are also lagging behind physical services in the area of good data and information to a concerning degree.