NHS Improvement says there were 97,000 vacancies in NHS trusts in England between October-December 2017. It’s based on management information and is not an official statistic, so should be treated ...

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The NHS has launched its annual nationwide drive to recruit more nurses as it tries to fill tens of thousands of vacancies across England. England's chief nurse Ruth May described the role as a ...

Health chiefs will cull up to 8,000 non-frontline NHS jobs as part of a clampdown on 'waste and wokery' in the health service. NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard revealed plans to cut ...

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The shortage of NHS staff in England has started worsening again, official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant with the situation particularly bad among the nursing workforce. Experts described ...

The number of vacancies in the NHS has soared to a record high, shock figures reveal. There were 30,613 full-time equivalent vacancies in England advertised in March 2017, according to the latest NHS ...

One in 11 posts across NHS hospital, ambulance and mental health trusts are vacant, according to “grim” official figures which lay bare the health service’s workforce and financial problems for the ...