Statistical Publication Notice

25 September 2007

NHSScotland Workforce Statistics

INTRODUCTION

Workforce related information about all staff working in NHSScotland are available on the website.  This release covers quarterly staff in post figures for consultants.

INTERPRETATION

The tables present figures in both Headcount numbers and Whole Time Equivalents (WTE).  WTEs adjust headcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff.
An employee may hold more than one appointment in NHSScotland. Their appointments may be in more than one NHS organisation, in more than one region, in more than one specialty, or in more than one grade.  This issue must be considered when using tables showing Headcount figures as the employee is counted under each organisation / region / specialty / grade they work in but only once in the total. Tables showing WTE figures are not affected.

DETAILED FINDINGS

Quarterly consultant figures show that at 30th June 2007, NHSScotland employed 3,696.7 whole time equivalent consultants, an increase of 12.8 (0.3%) from 31st March 2007, when the figure was 3,683.9 whole time equivalent.

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MAIN CONTACTS:

David Baird
Principal Information Analyst
0131 275 6040
david.baird@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk

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HISTORY OF THIS PUBLICATION:

Last Published:  26 June 2007
Next Due:  29 January 2008
Data Available Since:  Consultant staff in post - paper publication since 1970s, web publications since 1996