Policies and Strategies

There are a range of policies that govern the work we do and ensure that we are in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

• NES Corrections and Revisions Policy sets out our policy on corrections of errors and scheduled revisions, where provisional data has been updated.
• NES statistical disclosure control protocol and assessment procedure sets out guidance and risk assessment practices that we adhere to when information is being released to any type of customer or stakeholder.

From the 1st of April NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) have come together to form Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland).

We will publish a plan to provide consistent statistical governance arrangements within PSD Scotland and report this progress to the Office for Statistics Regulation by the end of September 2026.

To ensure that our statistics meet provide value to our users, it is essential that we engage with our users.

We have developed a user engagement strategy to guide the NHS workforce statistics engagement work over the next 3 years.