August 2019
The number of nursing and midwifery vacancies being advertised on the official NHS recruitment website in England has been rising steadily over the past five years and is now up 35% from 2015, new figures reveal. More than 37,000 full-time equivalent registered nurse and midwife opportunities were put out on NHS Jobs during the first quarter of 2019-20 – higher than the same period in any other year included in the data set.