Health Professions: Vacancies

(asked on 8th July 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Jonathan Ashworth Portrait
Jonathan Ashworth
(Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many FTE vacancies for (a) registered nurses and (b) medical staff there were in each quarter from Q1 2018-19 up to and including Q1 2020-21.

Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd July 2020

NHS Improvement collects vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. This data is published quarterly by NHS Digital and can be found via the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2020-experimental-statistics

The following table shows the vacancy rate and full time equivalent (FTE) vacancies for nursing and medical (doctors) staff from 2018/19 Q1 to 2019/20 Q4, the latest available data.

.

Nursing

Medical

.

Vacancy rate

FTE Vacancies

Vacancy rate

FTE Vacancies

2018/19 Q1

12.00%

42,589

9.60%

12,025

2018/19 Q2

12.10%

42,679

7.70%

9,743

2018/19 Q3

11.10%

39,686

7.10%

8,989

2018/19 Q4

11.10%

39,520

7.20%

9,183

2019/20 Q1

12.30%

43,617

9.00%

11,619

2019/20 Q2

12.10%

43,463

7.10%

9,265

2019/20 Q3

10.70%

38,785

6.60%

8,734

2019/20 Q4

9.90%

36,083

6.30%

8,338

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