Nurses: Vacancies
(asked on 24th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS nurse vacancies there have been in the UK, by region, in each of the last five years.
The following table table shows the number of full-time equivalent nursing vacancies in each English National Health Service region in June of each year since 2018.
| June 2018 | June 2019 | June 2020 | June 2021 | June 2022 |
All regions | 42,589 | 44,195 | 37,760 | 38,814 | 46,828 |
East of England | 4,721 | 4,376 | 3,058 | 3,257 | 4,228 |
London | 9,950 | 10,413 | 9,112 | 9,121 | 11,185 |
Midlands | 8,092 | 8,596 | 7,838 | 7,925 | 9,336 |
North East and Yorkshire | 4,807 | 5,322 | 5,131 | 4,904 | 6,050 |
North West | 5,148 | 5,474 | 5,072 | 5,033 | 5,754 |
South East | 6,473 | 6,481 | 5,453 | 5,857 | 6,645 |
South West | 3,398 | 3,531 | 2,097 | 2,717 | 3,631 |
Source: NHS Digital Quarterly Workforce Statistics June 2022