Select Committee on Health Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence

Annex A

Department of Health Recruitment, Retention and Vacancies Survey Vacancies in NHS Trusts by Region and Health Authority, Qualified nursing and midwifery staff

Table 1c

3 MONTH VACANCY RATES1

	Total qualified nurses	Acute, elderly & general	Paedia- trics	Learning difficulty	Psych- iatry	Midwives	District nurses	Health visitors	Other qualified nursing & midwifery staff
England Total	2.6%	3.3%	3.3%	2.0%	2.1%	2.0%	0.7%	0.9%	1.3%
Northern & Yorkshire	1.1%	0.9%	2.0%	3.4%	1.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.5%	1.2%
Bradford HA	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.9%
Calderdale & Kirklees HA	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
County Durham HA	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	6.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
East Riding HA	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Gateshead & South Tyneside HA	0.8%	0.5%	1.6%	0.0%	1.1%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	1.8%
Leeds HA	1.5%	0.8%	1.9%	2.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.9%	6.5%
Newcastle & North Tyneside HA	3.3%	3.4%	6.7%	0.0%	0.7%	1.9%	4.4%	3.5%	0.0%
North Cumbria HA	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
North Yorkshire HA	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Northumberland HA	2.2%	1.6%	0.0%	8.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Sunderland HA	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Tees HA	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Wakefield HA	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	3.6%	1.7%	0.0%	3.1%	2.8%	0.0%
Trent	1.4%	1.9%	0.8%	1.4%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
Barnsley HA	0.3%	0.0%	5.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Doncaster HA	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	7.3%	3.4%	0.0%	0.7%	1.4%	0.0%
Leicestershire HA	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Lincolnshire HA	0.7%	1.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
North Derbyshire HA	1.7%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
North Nottinghamshire HA	1.7%	2.6%	5.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%
Nottingham HA	2.6%	4.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Rotherham HA	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	4.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	3.5%	2.6%
Sheffield HA	2.0%	2.9%	1.5%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
South Derbyshire HA	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
South Humber HA	1.5%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	8.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
West Midlands	2.5%	3.7%	2.6%	2.1%	1.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%
Birmingham HA	3.7%	5.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	1.4%
Coventry HA	1.2%	*	*	3.3%	0.0%	*	2.1%	3.8%	0.0%
Dudley HA	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Herefordshire HA	2.1%	2.8%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	4.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
North Staffordshire HA	2.6%	2.9%	0.9%	7.4%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Sandwell HA	5.2%	9.6%	6.5%	2.0%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Shropshire HA	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.9%
Solihull HA	0.0%	*	*	0.0%	0.0%	*	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
South Staffordshire HA	1.9%	3.2%	0.0%	2.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Walsall HA	2.1%	3.4%	0.0%	3.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Warwickshire HA	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.6%	2.1%	0.0%
Wolverhampton HA	5.3%	3.8%	21.3%	17.9%	3.0%	8.4%	0.0%	3.3%	0.0%
Worcester & District HA	1.7%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
North West	1.0%	2.2%	1.6%	1.8%	2.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.8%
Bury & Rochdale HA	1.5%	2.6%	9.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%
East Lancashire HA	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	4.6%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
Liverpool HA	2.0%	3.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%
Manchester HA	4.3%	5.1%	3.5%	0.0%	5.5%	2.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.8%
Morecambe Bay HA	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
North Cheshire HA	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
North West Lancashire HA	0.8%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Salford & Trafford HA	2.2%	4.1%	2.0%	4.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
Sefton HA	1.8%	2.0%	8.5%	0.0%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
South Cheshire HA	1.4%	2.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
South Lancashire HA	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
St. Helens & Knowsley HA	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	8.9%	6.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Stockport HA	2.0%	2.0%	4.8%	0.7%	6.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
West Pennine HA	1.9%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	8.6%
Wigan & Bolton HA	1.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Wirral HA	0.3%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
Eastern	2.4%	2.8%	3.3%	1.2%	2.2%	2.5%	0.7%	1.5%	1.9%
Bedfordshire HA	0.8%	0.6%	2.2%	2.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Cambridge & Huntingdon HA	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
East & North Hertfordshire HA	5.5%	4.8%	6.5%	7.9%	8.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	15.2%
East Norfolk HA	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
North Essex HA	4.2%	5.7%	10.1%	1.3%	1.1%	5.3%	1.5%	6.3%	0.0%
North West Anglia HA	1.6%	2.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
South Essex HA	3.2%	2.8%	1.2%	1.6%	5.3%	9.2%	0.2%	0.9%	1.0%
Suffolk HA	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	1.5%	0.6%
West Hertfordshire HA	4.9%	8.1%	2.7%	0.4%	2.1%	5.0%	0.7%	0.9%	1.1%
London	5.1%	6.3%	6.6%	3.2%	2.9%	4.4%	1.9%	2.1%	2.7%
Barking & Havering HA	3.0%	3.6%	8.3%	2.0%	2.1%	4.0%	0.7%	0.9%	1.4%
Barnet HA	4.5%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	6.5%	8.0%	18.1%
Bexley & Greenwich HA	6.5%	11.1%	8.9%	19.0%	1.7%	6.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
Brent & Harrow HA	5.8%	5.6%	11.0%	*	12.5%	7.7%	0.0%	3.3%	1.0%
Bromley HA	5.4%	13.2%	11.4%	0.0%	0.0%	14.5%	6.2%	0.0%	2.8%
Camden & Islington HA	5.9%	7.5%	3.3%	0.2%	4.0%	6.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Croydon HA	9.4%	12.6%	7.6%	*	*	16.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow HA	1.6%	3.9%	0.0%	*	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	1.4%	0.0%
East London & The City HA	10.1%	12.9%	24.5%	0.8%	4.5%	1.6%	1.7%	2.4%	0.8%
Enfield & Haringey HA	2.6%	2.1%	0.0%	7.0%	0.8%	3.4%	4.0%	1.4%	6.6%
Hillingdon HA	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	*	0.0%	0.0%	*	*	0.0%
Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster HA	3.5%	3.4%	4.5%	5.4%	3.8%	0.4%	1.9%	5.9%	4.5%
Kingston & Richmond HA	0.0%	0.0%	*	0.0%	0.0%	*	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham HA	3.3%	2.8%	3.6%	*	8.6%	4.1%	0.8%	2.5%	6.7%
Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth HA	4.9%	7.0%	6.1%	0.0%	0.0%	3.8%	2.2%	0.5%	2.7%
Redbridge & Waltham Forest HA	6.9%	6.1%	30.8%	8.3%	8.3%	5.8%	4.3%	3.2%	2.1%
South East	3.7%	4.8%	4.6%	2.0%	3.1%	3.0\%	0.9%	1.4%	1.1%
Berkshire HA	2.9%	3.1%	2.7%	4.1%	2.0%	3.5%	5.3%	0.0%	0.3%
Buckinghamshire HA	4.3%	5.2%	1.4%	7.5%	3.8%	0.0%	1.0%	3.2%	6.1%
East Kent HA	3.8%	2.4%	3.6%	0.0%	12.0%	4.7%	0.4%	4.3%	0.0%
East Surrey HA	4.6%	8.6%	17.7%	0.4%	0.6%	3.6%	0.7%	0.0%	1.9%
East Sussex, Brighton & Hove HA	3.9%	5.8%	1.5%	1.0%	3.4%	3.5%	0.8%	2.8%	0.5%
Isle of Wight HA	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	*	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
North & Mid Hampshire HA	6.1%	6.9%	9.1%	2.0%	7.2%	5.7%	0.0%	2.6%	2.1%
Northamptonshire HA	2.8%	2.8%	3.1%	8.3%	4.3%	0.0%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%
Oxfordshire HA	2.4%	3.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
Portsmouth & SE Hampshire HA	1.9%	2.0%	0.1%	2.1%	2.2%	2.8%	0.7%	0.9%	1.2%
Southampton & SW Hampshire HA	5.2%	7.2%	0.0%	0.0%	4.4%	0.0%	0.0%	4.9%	0.0%
West Kent HA	0.7%	0.6%	3.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
West Surrey HA	7.9%	10.5%	25.8%	0.8%	1.5%	11.0%	0.7%	0.1%	1.2%
West Sussex HA	4.1%	7.1%	5.5%	0.0%	0.3%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
South West	1.4%	1.7%	1.4%	1.9%	0.6%	1.9%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%
Avon HA	1.5%	1.5%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	5.0%	4.2%	1.3%	0.6%
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly HA	0.8%	1.4%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
Dorset HA	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	2.2%	1.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
Gloucestershire HA	1.2%	1.1%	0.0%	5.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
North & East Devon HA	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Somerset HA	1.6%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
South & West Devon HA	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	3.2%
Wiltshire HA	3.4%	4.6%	5.1%	0.8%	1.6%	3.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
Source: Department of Health Recruitment, Retention and Vacancies Survey 1999.

  Notes:

  1.  Posts that had been vacant for 3 months or more at 31st March 1999.
  2.  HA figures are based on Trusts, and do not necessarily reflect the geographical provision of Healthcare.
  3.  Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.
  4.  * = figures based on less than 10 posts.

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Prepared 24 July 2000