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Dieticians: Manpower

Volume 503: debated on Monday 11 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many vacancies there were for dieticians in the national health service on average in each of the last five years. (310466)

Dieticians are not separately identified in the NHS Workforce Census. Dieticians are, however, included within the category of dietetics. The following table outlines the three-month vacancy numbers, for the period March 2005 to March 2009, and total vacancy numbers, for the period March 2008 to March 2009, for the dietetics speciality.

Dietetic vacancy numbers

Three-month vacancies1

March each year

2005

87

2006

38

2007

30

2008

12

2009

28

1Three-month vacancies are vacancies as at 31 March which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more.