Quarter ending 30 September 2024
Official Statistics
Published: 03 December 2024
This release by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) provides the quarterly update, as at 30 September 2024. 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.
This release also includes data on the number of dentists working in Scotland, on student nurses, the pharmacy workforce and the National Treatment Centre workforce.
For the first time this release also includes the number of General Practitioners working in Scotland. These, along with the dental contractor workforce, are not included in the infographic below.
When describing the size of a particular staff group figures are presented as headcount (actual number of staff) or whole time equivalent (WTE) which adjusts the headcount to take account of part time working.
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.
The next release of this publication will be 4 March 2025.
Publications prior to 3 December 2019 can be accessed via the ISD Workforce publication page.