Page last updated: 26-JAN-2010

General Practice - National Primary Care Workforce Survey 2009

Introduction

This page presents results from the January 2009 National Primary Care Workforce Planning Survey, which was designed to capture aggregate information about the GP, practice nurse and healthcare assistant workforce in Scotland.

A summary of the results is available in our Statistical Publication Notice .

The results include information on:-

  • an estimation of the weekly numbers of sessions worked by GPs (a GP's week is defined in terms of sessions rather than hours, with a working day generally being comprised of two or sometimes three sessions)
  • headcounts and whole time equivalent (WTE) numbers of practice nurses and healthcare assistants/phlebotomists
  • use of locum GP time
  • use of extra nurse time
  • known vacancies for these professional groups at a fixed census date

The information reported through these pages is based largely on the survey data received from 838 Scottish general practices, which between them provide primary care services to approximately 87% of Scotland's registered patient population.

The main survey report and further results are available below.  In addition, further information on the GP workforce in Scotland and the practices that they work in, is published regularly on our main GPs, practices and practice population page .

Report for Scotland

Full Report including explanation and commentary   link to an adobe pdf file (1.7Mb)
Excel versions of the tables and graphs link to a microsoft excel file  (1.2Mb)

Supplementary statistics for workforce planning regions and NHS Boards

Note: These documents are designed to be used in conjunction with the Full Report for Scotland
link to an adobe pdf file (approximately 410Kb size) link to a microsoft excel file(approximately 385Kb size)
West Region PDF version Excel version
     - Ayrshire & Arran PDF version Excel version
     - Dumfries & Galloway PDF version Excel version
     - Forth Valley PDF version Excel version
     - Greater Glasgow & Clyde PDF version Excel version
     - Lanarkshire PDF version Excel version
East Region PDF version Excel version
     - Borders PDF version Excel version
     - Fife PDF version Excel version
     - Lothian PDF version Excel version
North Region PDF version Excel version
     - Grampian PDF version Excel version
     - Highland PDF version Excel version
     - Orkney PDF version Excel version
     - Shetland PDF version Excel version
     - Tayside PDF version Excel version
     - Western Isles PDF version Excel version

Supplementary statistics for Community Health (and Care) Partnerships (CHPs/CHCPs)

PLEASE NOTE:
1) These files are designed to be used in conjunction with the Full Report for Scotland.
2) In order for these files to work correctly, you will need to open them in Microsoft Excel and select "Enable macros".

GPs link to a microsoft excel file (500Kb)
Practice Nurses link to a microsoft excel file (450Kb)
Healthcare Assistants/Phlebotomists link to a microsoft excel file (430Kb)

Users without recent versions of Microsoft Excel installed can download a viewer for this file format via www.isdscotland.org/isd/963.html.