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Written question asked by Brian Jenkins (Labour) on Thursday, 7 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 11 January 2010. It was answered by Ann Keen (Labour) on Monday, 11 January 2010 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dieticians: Manpower

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many vacancies there were for dieticians in the national health service on average in each of the last five years.
Answer

Dieticians are not separately identified in the NHS Workforce Census. Dieticians are, however, included within the category of dietetics. The following table outlines the three-month vacancy numbers, for the period March 2005 to March 2009, and total vacancy numbers, for the period March 2008 to March 2009, for the dietetics specialty.

Dietetic vacancy numbers
Three-month vacancies¹
March each year
2005 87
2006 38
2007 30
2008 12
2009 28
¹ Three-month vacancies are vacancies as at 31 March which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
503 c755W; 310466
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Vacancies Dietetics
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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