Parts of NHS England only able to fill one in 400 nursing vacancies

Official figures show more unfilled nurse and midwife posts than ever recorded

The NHS’s deepening shortage of nurses is worst in the part of England that contains Theresa May’s Maidenhead constituency, with hospitals there only able to recruit one nurse for every 400 vacancies they have, new NHS figures reveal.

Hospitals in the Thames Valley managed to fill just five of the 1,957 vacancies for nurses that they advertised between April and June – a success rate of 0.25% – according to the latest official NHS vacancy statistics.

Continue reading... January 23, 2018 at 09:30PM