Overall staff

This section provides an overall summary of the workforce in NHSScotland.  The figures are sourced from  Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS)  and the medical and dental (MEDMAN) system which includes information on all medical and dental staff working in hospitals, the community and public sector and from Practitioner Contractor Database (PCD) and Management Information and Dental Accounting System (MIDAS).

Information is presented by staff group, age group, gender, contract type, NHS Board and region.

Throughout, information is presented as headcount or whole time equivalent (WTE).  WTE adjusts headcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff.

The total number of staff in post (headcount) as at 30th September 2007 is 162,139.

The chart below shows the percentage of NHSScotland staff by staff group (headcount).  The largest staff goup is Nursing & Midwifery at 41.3%

 

 

Overall Staff in Post Summary     [664Kb]
Latest available data 30th September 2007 - last updated 29th January 2008

 

Overall Staff in Post - Trend     [228Kb]
Latest available data 30th September 2007 - last updated 29th January 2008

 

Total Sickness Absence by NHS Board    [79Kb]
Latest available data 31st March 2007 - last updated 26th June 2007

 

Equality & Diversity Summary by NHS Board    [148Kb]
Latest available data 31st March 2007 - last updated 26th June 2007

Information presented in this table is based on self-reporting by staff in NHS Scotland.  Data are collected via staff engagement forms when people join, or change organisation within, NHS Scotland or via the "e:you" questionnaire exercise undertaken for all staff in post during 2005 or the equality and diversity monitoring exercise in 2006 and 2007.  Completion of the questionnaire exercise was optional and response rates varied across the country.  Thos staff who did not return their questionnaire are counted under "not known".

 

Staff Turnover Trend by NHS Board and NHS Region    [1,159Kb]
Latest available data 30th September 2006 - last updated 30th January 2007

 

Number of Occupational Injuries by type of organisation and staff group    [58Kb]
Latest available data 31st March 2004 - last updated 28th October 2004

 

List of historic (pre agenda for change) tables - information presented by old Whitley staff group