The commitment to recruit 1000 additional staff in Primary Care Mental Health remains paused.We are still committed to the development of mental health and wellbeing workforce capacity in general practice through Action 15 of the Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027, and the Primary Care Improvement Fund (PCIF).Action 15 at March 2022, had seen an additional 356 WTE mental health workers recruited to general practice and at March 2025, 179.7 WTE Mental Health workers were in post funded by PCIF.