Publication timetable

We pre-announce all our forthcoming publications in line with the code of practice. Below are details of the publications to be released over the next year with a note of what data will be updated.

Release date: 4 Jun 2024 (latest census: 31 Mar 2024)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Workforce in NHSScotland

Quarterly summary report and annual report
Staff in post, vacancies, turnover, and staff in training

Psychology Services Workforce in NHSScotland

Quarterly summary report and annual report
Staff in post, vacancies, turnover, staff in training, and trainee retention

NHSScotland Workforce

Revised publication timetable

As you may be aware, from the first of April 2024 NHS Agenda for Change staff saw a reduction in their working week from 37.5 hours to 37 hours. The process to update the contracted and conditioned hours for this change in Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS) was carried out prior to the NES Data Group taking the March extract. After taking the extract, we became aware that the update had not worked as expected and as a result, the Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) calculations were incorrect. After investigating the issue alongside Atos and NSS, it was discovered the error was due to the full employee records not feeding through to SWISS from the Workforce Intelligence Repository (WIR) database. Atos are currently working to implement a fix.

Please note, no other data has been impacted. Therefore, whilst we carry out necessary investigation and work to calculate the WTE for the March census, we will be doing a phased release for the publication this quarter with data as at 31 March 2024. We expect this data to be released in two phases.

Phase One

This will be released on Tuesday 4 June 2024 as scheduled and will contain the following:

NHS Scotland workforce dashboard

Employment figures provided as Headcount only
Turnover calculations done as headcount only
Vacancy levels – excluding rates
Bank and Agency data
Equality and Diversity data
Dentists data

NHS Scotland workforce summary – excluding WTE
National Treatment Centre (Official statistics in development)

Dashboard employment figures as Headcount only
NTC workforce who are new entrants to NHS Scotland report

Phase Two

We will announce the date of the phase two through the normal processes, giving 4 weeks notice, and will go through a second Pre-release period. Further updates will be given on this page.

NHS Scotland workforce dashboard

Employment figures with WTE
Turnover calculations including WTE
Vacancy rates
Sickness absence

NHS Scotland workforce annual report
National Treatment Centre (Official statistics in development)

Dashboard employment figures including WTE

Release date: 3 Sep 2024 (latest census: 30 Jun 2024)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Workforce in NHSScotland

Quarterly summary report
Staff in post and vacancies

Psychology Services Workforce in NHSScotland

Quarterly summary report
Staff in post and vacancies

NHSScotland Workforce

Quarterly summary report
Employment and vacancies

Release date: 3 Dec 2024 (latest census: 30 Sep 2024)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Workforce in NHSScotland

Quarterly summary report
Staff in post, vacancies, and staff in training

Psychology Services Workforce in NHSScotland

Quarterly summary report
Staff in post, vacancies, staff in training, and trainee retention

NHSScotland Workforce

Quarterly summary report
Employment and vacancies
Pharmacy managed service employment and vacancies
Advanced nurse practitioners staff in post
Dental workforce
Nursing and midwifery student intakes, students in training, and student progression rates
National treatment centre workforce statistics as Experimental Statistics - statistics in development