Employment and training data used by NES are derived from different sources. A brief overview of the data sources used in official statistics publications are below. More detailed information, including the quality assurance processes, are available in the following pages.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Workforce in NHSScotland
Staff in post and sickness absence data are collected in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Workforce Database. This is a web based Oracle database that captures data on all staff delivering clinical care in specialist CAMHS in NHSScotland. These data are verified by lead clinicians at each NHS Boards and extracted quarterly by NES.
Staff in post data are combined with mid-year population estimates from National Records of Scotland to calculate the number of staff per 100,000 population and number of staff per 100,000 child and adolescent population (0- 18 year old).
Vacancy data are collected by survey from NHS Boards each quarter.
Staff in training data are sourced from Turas Training Programme Management (TPM) system twice a year.
Psychology Services Workforce in NHSScotland
Staff in post and sickness absence data are collected in the Clinical Psychology Services Workforce Database. This is a web-based Oracle database that captures data on all staff delivering clinical care in Psychology services in NHSScotland. These data are verified by lead clinicians at each NHS Boards and extracted quarterly by NES.
Staff in post data are combined with mid-year population estimates from National Records of Scotland to calculate the number of staff per 100,000 population.
Vacancy data are collected by survey from NHS Boards each quarter.
Staff in training data are sourced from Turas Training Programme Management (TPM) system twice a year. To calculate trainee retention we compare the training data with the employment data held in Scottish Workforce Information Standard System.
NHSScotland Workforce
In addition to the pages linked to from this page, a technical document is available, which has all the information contained in these pages in one document.