NHS: Vacancies
(asked on 1st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to fill vacancies in the NHS workforce.
This question was answered on 1st November 2022
We are working to ensure the NHS has the workforce it needs for the future.
We are committed to delivering 50,000 more nurses by 2024, and are currently on target, with over 29,000 more nurses compared with September 2019. We have funded 1,500 additional undergraduate medical school places in England, and in 2022 we have seen record numbers of undergraduate medical students.
We have also commissioned NHSE to develop a long-term workforce plan.