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Written question asked by Gloria De Piero (Labour) on Thursday, 26 October 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 31 October 2017 (named day). It was answered by Philip Dunne (Conservative) on Tuesday, 31 October 2017 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Doctors: Vacancies

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent doctor positions are vacant in the NHS in England; and what that number is as a proportion of all doctor positions.

Answer

The information is not available in the format requested.

Health Education England (HEE) provides estimates of staff shortages and the plan for tackling these issues as part of their Workforce Plan for England publication. The latest figures are available at the following link:

https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf

HEE plans to publish the Workforce Plan for England 2017/18 in due course.

In addition, NHS Digital does publish the number of vacancies that are advertised on NHS Jobs, the dedicated online recruitment service for the National Health Service. However, as the basis of the figures is the number of vacancies advertised for the first time in each given month, it is not possible to determine from these figures the number of vacancies live at any given point in time. The figures only cover those vacancies advertised via NHS Jobs, and it is not always possible to determine how many posts are associated with any given advertisement.

The latest figures are available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/media/31747/NHS-Vacancy-Statistics-England-February-2015-March-2017-Provisional-Experimental-Statistics-Tables/default/nhs-vac-stats-feb15-mar17-eng-tables

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
109883
Session
2017-19
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Doctors NHS Vacancies
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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