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NHS: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vacancies were advertised in the NHS in each year since 2010.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
23 Oct 2024
Answer
24 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vacancies were advertised in the NHS in each year since 2010.

  2. 23 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The Department does not hold the information requested. NHS England publishes a compendium of NHS Vacancy Statistics each quarter. Whilst none of the data published is the exact number of vacancies advertised in the National Health Service, the informatio...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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