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Cancer: Nurses

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 280453, tabled on 22 July 2019

Question

Karen Lee
Labour
Lincoln
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cancer clinical nurse specialist vacancies in the NHS.

Answer

Jo Churchill
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds
Commons

Answered on

5 August 2019

NHS Improvement collects vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.

NHS Digital published the latest NHS Improvement vacancy data which can be found at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics

The large majority of vacancies are filled by a combination of bank and agency staff.

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