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<p>Posts may be vacant, for a variety of reasons including maternity and career breaks.
Trusts make decisions based on local needs about how they fill these posts, including
looking at short-term options for cover, including bank and agency staff.</p><p>Since
April 2017, NHS Improvement collect vacancy rates of National Health Service staff
from individual NHS trusts and publish them as part of their ‘Quarterly performance
of the NHS provider sector’ report found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf"
target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf</a></p><p>As
at 31 December there were 100,521 full time equivalent vacancies in NHS trusts, this
is an 8.4% vacancy rate. Of these, approximately 80% and 85% of the nursing and medical
vacancies are being filled by bank and agency staff.</p><p>Skills for Care estimate
that there are approximately 110,000 jobs that are vacant in adult social care, this
is an 8% vacancy rate.</p><p>The NHS People Plan sets out the next step in our mission
to make the NHS a world class employer and deliver the workforce which the NHS needs.</p>
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