NHS: Staff
(asked on 2nd June 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) filled and (b) unfilled full-time equivalent roles there were in each of the NHS regional teams in (i) 2023-24, (ii) 2024-25 and (iii) 2025-26.
The following table sets out the full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in NHS England’s regional teams as of 30 March 2025:
Directorates / Regions | Budgeted FTE | Staff List FTE | Vacant FTE | Vacancy Rate |
Region - East of England | 804.1 | 650.2 | 153.9 | 19.10% |
Region - London | 1,032.50 | 916.7 | 115.8 | 11.20% |
Region - Midlands | 1,085.70 | 929.7 | 156.1 | 14.40% |
Region - North East & Yorkshire | 844.7 | 759.3 | 85.4 | 10.10% |
Region - North West | 756.6 | 684.7 | 71.9 | 9.50% |
Region - South East | 949.2 | 783.6 | 165.5 | 17.40% |
Region - South West | 710.3 | 621.5 | 88.8 | 12.50% |
Total | 6,183.00 | 5,345.70 | 837.3 | 13.50% |
Source: NHS England
Notes:
- Workforce data is collected at a single point as a ‘snapshot’, so we are unable to provide it for a whole financial year.
- We are unable to provide data at the equivalent time point within 2023/24 as data has not been validated, and the equivalent time point within 2025/26 has not happened yet.