Health Professions: Vacancies
(asked on 5th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current vacancy rate for nurses and midwives in the UK.
This question was answered on 14th December 2017
Management information data collected by NHS Improvement estimates that as at September 2017, around 36,000 registered nursing and midwifery posts are not filled by a substantive member of staff - 33,000 of these are covered by bank and agency staff. This is management information data that continues to be developed.