Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing posts are vacant in (a) hospital and (b) community trusts in England.
The information is not available in the format requested.
Health Education England (HEE) provide estimates of staff shortages in the National Health Service Trusts 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 plan to publish the Workforce Plan for England 2017/18 in due course.