Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of vacancy is in histopathology departments.

NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.

They do not specifically produce vacancy data for histopathology departments or any vacancy data for each National Health Service hospital or trust.

NHS Digital published the latest NHS Improvement vacancy data which can be found in the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics