Introduction
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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.
News
The next National Statistics publication of Workforce Information is released on the 29 May 2012. This release contains information on;
- All staff in post
- General Dental Services
- Vacancies (Nursing & midwifery, Consultant and Allied Health Professions)
- Staff turnover
- Nursing and Midwifery Bank and Agency
- Staff Governance Statistics including, Equality and Diversity and Sickness Absence
At present Workforce information published within the ISD workforce website presents staff in post information by Headcount and Whole Time Equivalent. In order to provide additional and more accurate information, ISD have revised current methodologies. These changes include the addition of an 'employments' count and revision to the headcount measure.
Over the past year there has been an increasing demand from the public and key stakeholders to have more frequent workforce information reports made available for national use. In response to this, it has been agreed by the ISD Workforce Statistics Steering Group, and ISD Workforce Technical Reference group that workforce statistics should be published on a quarterly basis and this is supported by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing. The quarterly publication cycle will also support the refresh of the Workforce Planning Framework that provides a methodology to help Boards focus how their plans will deliver the three quality ambitions. Including what the impact on future services will be and identifying workforce solutions for the future measured against the agreed indicators.
A letter to publicise this new 'NHSSCOTLAND Workforce national statistics quarterly reporting cycle' 
[214kb] was issued to all NHS Boards during March 2011.
Updates
Due to an increasing demand from the public and key stakeholders to have more frequent workforce information reports made available for national use, this release forms part of the new quarterly workforce publication cycle.
The latest release as at 28th February 2012 includes information on staff in post across all NHS staff groups as well as vacancy information for Nursing & Midwifery, Allied Health Professionals and Consultants as at 31st December 2011. Information on staff employed in General Dental and General Medical Services as at 30th September 2011 is also included as well as information on Staff Turnover and Consultant Contract.
Information available include:
- 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
- Staff Governance
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
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 
[240KB] staff groupings as well as being presented in the old Whitley format [75KB].
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.
