Survey highlights R&R crisis
 Results from the first recruitment and retention survey conducted by NHS Employers have confirmed that the majority of trusts have a hardcore of difficult to fill posts. Top of the list are allied health professionals, nurses, midwives and doctors.
Oversubscribed vacancies (ie 30 – 40 applicants for a single post) were mainly found in the wider health care team such as porters, receptionists and healthcare assistants.
Vacant positions are most commonly publicised through internal advertising and electronic recruitment via the NHS Jobs website; 70 per cent of responding trusts said that they used NHS Jobs. Just over half of trusts that replied to the survey had used international recruitment agencies and 43 per cent of those advertisements were for allied health professionals. In particular 8 per cent answered that they recruit internationally for radiographers. The most popular countries include the Philippines, India, Spain and Poland.
One in 10 of all trusts that responded predicted redundancies in the next 12 months and a further 25 per cent said that they might potentially have job losses. Groups most likely to be affected were managers and the wider health care team. However, almost two-thirds replied that they were not expecting to make anyone redundant at all.
Just under 39 per cent of trusts who took part in the survey have had recruitment freezes in the past year, mainly among managers and the wide healthcare team, and to a smaller extent, nurses and midwives.
Click here to download a pdf of the survey results.
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