Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultant radiologist posts in NHS trusts are (a) vacant and (b) covered by locums.

There are no official statistics on the number of vacancies for any profession or group in the National Health Service following the decommissioning of the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) vacancy survey in 2011.

The HSCIC only provides statistics relating to locum consultants in clinical radiology that have a fixed term or permanent contract with an organisation. The latest monthly workforce statistics for 31 July 2014 shows that there are 19 full time equivalent locum consultants in clinical radiology in the NHS in England.

Radiologists also work in the private and independent sectors but the numbers are not collected centrally.