NHS 'missing recruitment quotas'

UK primary care trusts have missed their target for employing community development workers (CDWs) by three years, it has been claimed.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health said that by the end of March 2008, there were 419.46 whole-time equivalents CDWs in posts against a goal of 500.

The representative added the NHS is committed to meeting its full quota by March 31st 2009.

"Community development workers are essential in reducing inequalities in how people from black and minority ethnic communities access, experience and achieve outcomes from mental health services," they added.

According to social care profession website Communitycare.co.uk, the government's Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care strategy, launched in 2005, required primary care trusts in England to recruit all 500 CDWs by 2006.

The site went on to say the services were also failing in other key aims of the strategy - reducing the rates of admission of people from ethnic minorities to inpatient units in England and Wales and cutting their disproportionate numbers in compulsory detention and seclusion.

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Filed: 09-12-2008