Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many general practitioner and nursing vacancies there were in general practice in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The information is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy surveys in England were undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. These surveys were suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from National Health Service organisations.