Doctors and Nurses: Vacancies
(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vacant positions there are for (a) nurses and (b) doctors in (i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England.
NHS England and NHS Improvement collect vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, registered nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published by NHS Digital for England and at the regional level.
The latest quarterly vacancy data for June 2020 can be found in the following link:
The latest statistics show that as at June 2020, there are 37,821 registered nursing vacancies and 8,278 medical vacancies in England, full-time equivalent (FTE). In the Midlands, there are 8,063 registered nursing vacancies and 2,421 medical vacancies, FTE. The data does not allow a differentiation between West and East Midlands.
The majority of these vacancies are filled by bank and agency staff.