News and updates

Welcome to the NHSScotland Workforce section of Information Services Division website.  ISD collects a variety of information on staff employed in NHSScotland, an overview of which is presented in the following web pages. 

This section of our website provides the latest available information about staff employed in NHSScotland.   Our Statistical Publication Notice explains the key points from this release.

The information collected and presented within this section will be used by ISD and NHS Boards to support local, regional and national workforce planning, and will only be used and disclosed in connection with these purposes.

Updates   

This release includes information on Nurse Bank and Agency spend, Sickness Absence and Equality and Diversity as at 31st March 2010.  Information on Staff Turnover for years 2007 to 2009 and Doctors in Training from August 2009 to January 2010 is also released. Information on General Dental Service (GDS) dentists  is presented as at 31st March 2010.

Latest NHSScotland Workforce information as at 30^th September 2009 is available within the following sections;

• Trend
• Overall staff and Turnover  
• Medical and dental
• Nursing and midwifery
• Allied health professions
• Other therapeutic staff and personal social care
• Healthcare science staff
• All other staff
• Psychology project
• Staff Governance 

In January 2008 the information presented in these web pages changed to reflect the introduction of  Agenda for Change .  This has resulted in significant challenges in producing trend data in light of such a profound change in the source of data.  To add clarity to this, an outline has been produced, mapping what trend information is possible.  This is presented by the new agenda for change staff groupings as well as being presented in the  old Whitley format .

During July 2008 Medical and Dental information was migrated from the MEDMAN web based system to the Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS) .  This alignment provided the opportunity to capture all NHSScotland staff in post information in the one system, which has resulted in more robust information being captured and reported.

The Workforce newsletter is available.  Please click here  [432kb

A full list of workforce team members is given in the contacts option.  Alternatively e-mail us directly by clicking here .