Learning Disability: Nurses
(asked on 19th July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2018 to Question 164427 on learning disability: nurses, in what format his Department collects data.
The Department collects vacancy data from its arm’s length bodies; NHS Improvement, NHS Digital and Health Education England (HEE).
NHS Improvement has published management information vacancy data since April 2017 which is based on vacancies reported by trusts. This information covers the National Health Service trusts as a whole as well as a more granular breakdown for nursing and medics, but this does not go to the level of organisations, every staff group, or in particular learning disability nurses.
The latest NHS Improvement vacancy figures are available at the following link:
www.improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quarterly-performance-nhs-provider-sector-quarter-4-201718/
NHS Digital publishes NHS vacancy statistics, created from administrative data related to job advertisements published on NHS Jobs, the main recruitment website for the NHS.
The provisional experimental NHS Vacancy Statistics publication provides a proxy for vacancy information and, therefore, should be treated with caution. As one vacancy advert can be used to fill multiple vacancies it is not possible to accurately state the number of vacancies within a specified period – the only accurate statement is that the number of advertised vacancy full-time equivalents shows the minimum number of vacancies advertised. The figures contained in the publication are intended to provide an insight to recruitment in the NHS. It is not possible to identify unfilled advertised vacancies.
The latest NHS Vacancy Statistics publication is available at the following link:
HEE provides estimates of “shortage” as part of their Workforce Strategy for England. HEE advise that they work with a definition of 'shortage' as the difference between the number of funded posts and the number of contracted staff in post. HEE’s latest estimates of staff shortages and the plan for tackling these issues is set out in their Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future, A draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027 published in December 2017. This can be found at the following link: