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<p>Since April 2017, NHS Improvement collects vacancy rates of medical staff from
individual National Health Service providers and publish them as part of its ‘Quarterly
performance of the NHS provider sector’ report. The vacancy data is published for
three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. The report can be found in
the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/5404/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_4_1819.pdf"
target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/5404/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_4_1819.pdf</a></p><p>The
latest available data as at March 2019, shows there are over 39,500 nursing and midwifery
vacancies across the NHS. This is a vacancy rate of 11.1%. There are 40,300 nursing
and midwifery temporary staff (bank and agency) who are used to fill in these vacancies
as well as short and long-term sickness absence and maternity leave.</p><p>Skills
for Care estimates that in 2017/18, there are over 4,400 vacant registered nursing
jobs in social care. This is a vacancy rate of 12.3%.</p><p>The interim people Plan,
which was published on 3 June 2019, sets out a shared vision and plan of action to
put NHS people at the heart of NHS policy and delivery and ensure the NHS has the
staff it needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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