NHSScotland Workforce 30 June 2025
Quarter ending 30 June 2025
Official Statistics
Published: 02 September 2025
About this release
This release by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) provides phase one of the quarterly update, as at 30 June 2025. This includes the number of staff directly employed by NHS Scotland and the number of vacant posts there were for nursing and midwifery staff, allied health professions, and medical and dental consultants. When describing the size of a particular staff group figures are presented as headcount (actual number of staff).
The list of available annual reports can be found on the Official statistics annual reports page on TDI.
Key Points
Background
Information on staff directly employed is sourced from each NHS Board’s human resources and payroll systems. These are dynamic, operational systems and data can change over time. Work is undertaken with NHS Boards to improve data quality and previously published information may change from one publication to the next to reflect these improvements.
Further Information
The next scheduled quarterly release of this publication will be 2 December 2025.
Publications prior to 3 December 2019 can be accessed via the ISD Workforce publication page.
Pre-release access to this official statistics release was granted for a period of 5 working days prior
to the date set for its publication to those people whose organisations and job titles are
listed in the attached document.