Out-of-Hours Workforce Survey

Overview

The Primary Care Out of Hours Workforce Survey was developed to meet a need for centrally collated information on the workforce involved in the provision of Primary Care Out of Hours (OoH) services. Prior to 2019, information on Primary Care Out of Hours Workforce was collected as part of the wider Primary Care Workforce Survey.

This survey was developed in partnership with a range of stakeholders including: the Scottish General Practitioners’ Committee, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Nursing and the Scottish Practice Nurse Association.

What data is published

• General Practitioners (GPs) and nurses working in Primary Care Out of Hours services in the past year
• Challenges and experiences in filling shifts in the past year
• Use of multi-disciplinary teams within Out of Hours

Submissions are reviewed by NSS to check whether the information given appeared to be valid. If for example information was missing, apparently contradictory or unusual, this was queried with the Primary Care Out of Hours service. It is impossible to fully validate and quality assure all of the data supplied by Primary Care Out of Hours Services, so data quality issues may exist in the dataset.