Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacancies there were for (a) consultants, (b) other doctors, (c) registered nurses, (d) physiotherapists, (e) X-ray technicians and (f) pharmacists at (i) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, (ii) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, (iii) Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, (iv) Bolton NHS, (v) East Lancashire Hospital, (vi) Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals Trust, (vii) Warrington and Halton Hospitals and (viii) St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals as at 31 August 2017.

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.