Page last updated: 24-NOV-2009

Costs

Links to related pages: 

Specialty Costs Overheads Theatres Drugs Staff Radiology Laboratory

Staff

NHSS is a major employer with more than 125,000 staff (WTE)1 working in the hospital and community sectors.  The pay bill for these sectors for 2008/09 was almost £4.6 billion, which accounts for 69% of the gross running costs of these services.

link to a microsoft excel file R700 [23 KB] - hospital and community staff expenditure summary2 by sector, by board


Hospital Sector

Information on staff numbers and pay is primarily collected, for each hospital, on SFR 5.1B and presented at board level in R710:

link to a microsoft excel file SFR 5.1B [428 KB] - a hospital-level summary of pay and WTEs for the main staff groups
link to a microsoft excel file R710 [24 KB] - hospital staff profile - expenditure and WTEs by main staff groupings, by board

Information on staff costs at specialty level is shown in Specialty Costs reports.  The number of staff (WTEs) working in each specialty is available at a national level in the following report:

link to a microsoft excel file R720 [29 KB] - hospital staff profile - expenditure and WTEs by specialty

See also the following pages for related staff costs: Theatres, Radiology and Overheads.


Community Sector

Information on staff who spend all or part of their time working in community services is primarily collected on SFR 8.1 and presented in R730:

link to a microsoft excel file SFR 8.1 [37 KB] - a summary of pay and WTEs for the main staff groups
link to a microsoft excel file R730 [23 KB] - community staff profile - expenditure and WTEs by main staff groupings, by board


Laboratory Services

Laboratory staff provide services to both hospital and community sectors (and elsewhere).  It is not possible to split the staffing information across these sectors so laboratory staff are shown separately.

link to a microsoft excel file R740 [23 KB] - laboratory staff profile - expenditure and WTEs by main staff groupings, by board


Family Health Services

The Costs Book does not include staff costs for family health services, but see links below for further information on this sector.

General Practice
Dental
Workforce


Notes

  1. WTE - whole time equivalent.  For Costs Book, boards are asked to provide staffing data, where possible, as WTE worked, measured as hours worked divided by conditioned hours.
  2. Includes laboratory staff for first time.


Main contact: Email Costs Team