Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 15th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacant A&E consultant posts there were in the NHS excluding London (a) on the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) in each of the previous six years.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 20th January 2015

Information on vacancies is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was 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 NHS organisations.

The attached table provides vacancy data for 2009 and 2010, the only two years within the last six years for which data is available.

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