Workforce crisis has left mental health staff at “breaking point” as demand rises
Abstract
Staff working in mental healthcare are at “breaking point” as they try to handle rising demand with a continuous staffing gap, a survey by the BMA has found.1 Of more than 1000 mental health professionals surveyed, 63% said that they worked in a setting that had rota gaps across the team, and 69% of these said that such gaps occurred either most or all the time. As a result, over half (52%) of the respondents reported being too busy to provide the care they would like to, while 44% said their workload was unmanageable. Sharing their personal experiences, one respondent said that they had been “thrown to the wolves,” while another said that the stress had negatively affected their own mental health. …
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The supply of mental healthcare is not matching the demand as mental health services are widely underfunded and understaffed.
“Firstly, the supply of mental healthcare is not matching the demand as mental health services are widely underfunded and understaffed [World Health Organization, 2021b, Mahase, 2020].”
From Closing the accessibility gap to mental health treatment with a personalized self-referral chatbot (2024) · cites this paper as Mahase, 2020
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BMA. Measuring progress: commitments to support and expand the mental health workforce in England. Jan 2020. https://www.bma.org.uk/collective-voice/policy-and-research/education-training-and-workforce/mental-health-workforce-report.
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Closing the accessibility gap to mental health treatment with a personalized self-referral chatbot
Habicht, J., Viswanathan, S., Carrington, B., Hauser, T. U., Harper, R., & Rollwage, M. (2024) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/s41591-023-02766-x · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Phoenix, N., & Taylor, J. (2023) · European Journal of Mental Health · doi:10.5708/ejmh.18.2023.0006 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Sanga, S., Tarimo, E. A. M., & Ambikile, J. S. (2023) · PLOS Global Public Health · doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0002108 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
“This leads to shortage of staff and it is one of the major reasons the mental health services continue to suffer [19].”
Background
- Authors
- Mahase, E.
- Affiliations
- BMJ Group (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mahase, Elisabeth
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2020-01-09
- Volume
- 368
- Pages
- m88
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3000040717
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 2
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- mental health professionals, labor shortage, workload, burnout, occupational stress
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