NHS and Social Services: Voluntary Work
(asked on 19th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) tasks and (b) shifts booked from 1 June 2025 onwards with the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders service have been cancelled.
The Royal Voluntary Service provides reports on activity to NHS England. These reports do not separate out tasks and shifts. The following table provides a breakdown of activities, which could be tasks or shifts, in each month from May 2023 to February 2025, and in total for 2023/24 and 2024/25:
2023/24 | 2024/25 | ||
May 2023 | 7218 | April 2024 | 9833 |
June 2023 | 5109 | May 2024 | 9328 |
July 2023 | 3848 | June 2024 | 5566 |
August 2023 | 7458 | July 2024 | 5864 |
September 2023 | 10550 | August 2024 | 6548 |
October 2023 | 14180 | September 2024 | 6796 |
November 2023 | 10070 | October 2024 | 11533 |
December 2023 | 10,534 | November 2024 | 7453 |
January 2024 | 9749 | December 2024 | 8757 |
February 2024 | 9246 | January 2025 | 11155 |
March 2024 | 9063 | February 2025 | 10736 |
2023/24 Total | 97025 | March 2025 | 12728 |
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| 2024/25 Total | 106297 |
In addition, the following table provides a breakdown of the total activities, which could be tasks or shifts, in each quarter since May 2023, based on data provided by Royal Voluntary Service in reports to NHS England:
Quarter | Total |
May to June 2023 | 12327 |
July to September 2023 | 21856 |
October to December 2023 | 34784 |
January to March 2024 | 28058 |
April to June 2024 | 24727 |
July to September 2024 | 19208 |
October to December 2024 | 27743 |
January to March 2025 | 34619 |
NHS England does not hold information on the number of tasks and shifts booked from 1 June 2025 onwards, as the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders programme will have been cancelled.