Quarter ending 30 September 2024
Official Statistics
Published: 03 December 2024
This release by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) provides a quarterly update, as at 30 September 2024, on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) workforce staff in post, vacancies and staff in training.
Figures are presented as headcount (actual numbers of staff) and whole time equivalent (WTE), which adjusts the figures to take account of part time working.
At 30 September 2024:
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provide essential assessment, care and treatment of children and young people (and their parents/carers) who are experiencing serious mental health problems. They also have an important role in supporting the mental health capability of the wider network of children’s services. The delivery of good quality CAMHS services depends upon adequate numbers of staff being recruited and retained across NHSScotland.
Information on members of staff employed are sourced from each NHS Health board and verified by CAMHS lead clinicians using the National CAMHS Workforce Information Database held centrally at NSS. NHS Education for Scotland work closely with these clinicians to ensure a high level of accuracy. Continuous work is undertaken to improve the data quality and consistency of the information provided. Previously published information may change to reflect any improvements. Further information is available on Turas Data Intelligence.
As of 1 October 2019, ownership and responsibility for collecting and reporting workforce data transferred from Information Services Division (ISD) to NES.
The data from this publication are available to download from our web page and available as dashboards. Publications prior to 3 December 2019 can be accessed via the ISD CAMHS page.
CAMHS Psychology Workforce information is also included in the main Psychology Workforce publication.
The next release of this publication will be in March 2025.