Table 5.
Hypothetical Vacancies without Foreign Recruits a
| SHA name | %vacb | %vacancyUKc | #vacancyUKd | %vacUK_Filipinoe |
| Norfolk, Suffolk & ambridgeshire | 2.3 | 13.3 | 1707 | 7.4 |
| Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire | 6.4 | 22.5 | 1552 | 16.1 |
| Essex | 3.3 | 14.3 | 1006 | 9.6 |
| London | ||||
| North West London | 6.6 | 27.2 | 3349 | 20.0 |
| North Central London | 5.7 | 17.0 | 1756 | 14.0 |
| North East London | 3.8 | 18.7 | 1634 | 13.8 |
| South East London | 7.3 | 19.0 | 2102 | 15.1 |
| South West London | 2.3 | 18.6 | 1347 | 13.1 |
| Northumberland, Tyne & Wear | 1.1 | 5.9 | 621 | 2.7 |
| County Durham & Tees Valley | 1.4 | 5.2 | 383 | 2.9 |
| NE Yorkshire & N Lincolnshire | 2.1 | 6.4 | 520 | 5.0 |
| West Yorkshire | 1.6 | 9.2 | 1246 | 5.2 |
| Cumbria & ancashire | 1.3 | 6.4 | 754 | 4.5 |
| Greater Manchester | 1.6 | 9.5 | 1686 | 7.8 |
| Cheshire & Merseyside | 1.4 | 8.7 | 1415 | 6.2 |
| The Southeast | ||||
| Thames Valley | 2.9 | 18.5 | 1878 | 11.8 |
| Hampshire & Isle of Wight | 3.6 | 14.5 | 1346 | 7.6 |
| Kent & Medway | 2.7 | 11.3 | 827 | 7.3 |
| Surrey & Sussex | 4.3 | 18.3 | 2321 | 11.4 |
| Avon, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire | 1.8 | 14.4 | 1807 | 9.9 |
| South West Peninsula | 0.9 | 3.7 | 326 | 2.8 |
| Dorset & Somerset | 0.4 | 8.0 | 479 | 4.8 |
| South Yorkshire | 0.9 | 5.8 | 524 | 5.1 |
| Trent | 0.8 | 6.2 | 888 | 3.8 |
| Leics, Northamptonshire & Rutland | 2.1 | 8.2 | 649 | 6.2 |
| Shropshire & Staffordshire | 1.1 | 8.3 | 661 | 3.9 |
| Birmingham & the Black Country | 1.9 | 10.2 | 1568 | 5.9 |
| West Midlands South | 1.2 | 8.3 | 624 | 5.6 |
| All London SHAs | 5.1 | 18.9 | 10187 | 14.4 |
| Southeast Region | 3.3 | 15.3 | 6372 | 9.3 |
| Rest of England | 1.7 | 9.1 | 18427 | 6.0 |
| England TOTAL | 2.6 | 12.1 | 34986 | 8.3 |
| Wales | 2.1 | 6.8 | 1823 | 3.7 |
| Scotland | 1.1 | 3.1 | 1368 | 2.5 |
aAssumes no foreign-trained nurses ever came to the UK and that existing NHS staffing counts include full employment of foreign-trained nurses (i.e. 100% of international recruits work full-time for the NHS within their resident SHA, and nurses working in the private health sector or not working at all are attributable entirely to the domestically trained population). While subject to measurement error and strong assumptions, numbers represent upper bound on possible vacancies without foreign recruitment (assuming wages and working conditions would not have improved more over the past few years to attract more locally-trained nurses).
bActual 3-month vacancy rate reported by Department of Health.
using wte count from March, 2004 (collected in the Vacancy Survey and used in the calculation of vacancy rates).
d#vacUK = #vacancy (regular, Table 1) + # foreign-trained nurses.
