Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vacancies there are in the NHS in each (a) region and (b) integrated care board.

NHS England publishes vacancy statistics for National Health Service trusts in England, on a quarterly basis. They cover the total staffing vacancies, medical vacancies, and registered nursing vacancies. The information published includes full time equivalent vacancy numbers and rates by NHS region. These measure the difference between funded establishment posts, and those filled by substantive staff. They do not indicate where vacancies are currently filled with temporary staff, and therefore do not equate to unfilled shifts. The latest figures can be found at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/april-2015---december-2023-experimental-statistics

The underlying data supplied by NHS trusts is not usually aggregated and presented at an integrated care board level, however, it has been compiled in the attached file.