More than 40,000 jobs vacant in UK NHS that suffers from ‘frantic under staffing’

More than 40,000 jobs are vacant in NHS in England alone according to Royal College of Nursing General Secretary and Chief Executive Janet Davies. The actual number of vacant jobs is far more than what is advertised, added Davis. The percentage of vacant jobs in the NHS has crossed 15.8% in 2016-17 and this has prompted caution that it is facing ‘frantic under staffing’.

The representative association of more than 100,000 NHS workers that includes healthcare assistants and paramedics Unite said that Brexit, pay austerity and repeated reorganization of the NHS are the reasons behind the shortage of staff. The number of vacancies in UK NHS has been identified by NHS Digital.

NHS Digital released the statistics for full-time job vacancies in NHS England to be 30, 613 by March 2017, the highest recorded numbers so far. This was an increase of 26, 424 jobs in March 2016, as quoted by The Guardian.

In Q1- 2017 NHS advertised 86, 035 positions that highlighted the vast number of vacancies in healthcare and allied positions that need to be filled.

On the other hand, the NHS workers group said that the official statistics revealed by the NHS were a serious underestimation of the actual vacancies. The NHS Digital staff also agreed that the vacancies for nurses were actually undercounted. Workers such as practice nurses that are employed by GP surgeries were not covered under the official statistics.

It has been also analyzed that shortage of nurses is resulting in the deferred discharge of patients from NHS. The decrease in the number of community and district nurses was a big factor for the blockage of social care services in the UK.

The breakup of the 30, 613 vacancies were given by the NHS as – 11, 485 vacant jobs for midwives and nurses, 6, 575 vacancies for clerical and administrative staff.

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