Nurse Attrition and Vacancies
Reference: 24-25295
Date response sent: 14/10/2024
Details of enquiry
- Since the beginning of April 2024 how many nurses have left your trust?
- From the date of receipt of this request until March 31st 2025, how many nurses are expected to leave your trust?
- What are your current total vacancies for nurses on the date of receiving this request?
- Does your trusts have any plans to recruit internationally in the next financial year, April 2025 – April 2026?
Response sent
Please kindly note that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist mental health Trust, and not a hospital, we provide outpatient, and mainly psychological, services via talking therapies, on a day-clinic basis.
We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, and do not have an A&E department
We only employ a small number of around 30 permanent nurses at any given point, and do not operate a shift system, and and work daytime hours Monday to Friday.
- Since the beginning of April 2024 how many nurses have left your trust?
Two
- From the date of receipt of this request until March 31st 2025, how many nurses are expected to leave your trust?
We do not hold data on this, though we can advise that none are currently working out notice period.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) applies to recorded information that exists at the time of the request and does not require an authority to answer questions where this would involve speculation, opinions and/or the creation of new information. This this question can only be answered by creating new information.
- What are your current total vacancies for nurses on the date of receiving this request?
This information is publicly available and may be reached via our website at: Vacancies – Tavistock and Portman and via the NHS Jobs website at https://www.jobs.nhs.uk
- Does your trusts have any plans to recruit internationally in the next financial year, April 2025 – April 2026?
No. Please see our response to Question 2 above.