NHS: Vacancies
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of unfilled NHS roles in the North East.
Answered by Karin Smyth
NHS England publishes a compendium of NHS Vacancy Statistics each quarter. The information currently provides four measures of the level of vacancies in the National Health Service, one of which presents management information collected by NHS England from NHS trusts on full time equivalent vacancies reported, which is the most commonly used measure. NHS England collects and publishes vacancies in the North East and Yorkshire as a single region, which is available in this publication.
Published vacancy data, including information on the definition of the collected data and the available timeseries, along with the measure’s strengths and weaknesses, is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey
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