Doctors: Vacancies
(asked on 26th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of full-time equivalent consultant positions which are vacant in the NHS in England; and what proportion that number is of all consultant positions.
The information is not available in the format requested.
Health Education England (HEE) provides estimates of staff shortages and the plan for tackling these issues as part of their Workforce Plan for England publication. The latest figures are available at the following link:
https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf
HEE plans to publish the Workforce Plan for England 2017/18 in due course.
In addition, NHS Digital does publish the number of vacancies that are advertised on NHS Jobs, the dedicated online recruitment service for the National Health Service. However, as the basis of the figures is the number of vacancies advertised for the first time in each given month, it is not possible to determine from these figures the number of vacancies live at any given point in time. The figures only cover those vacancies advertised via NHS Jobs, and it is not always possible to determine how many posts are associated with any given advertisement.
The latest figures are available at the following link: