NHSScotland Workforce 30 September 2023
Quarter ending 30 September 2023
Official Statistics
Published: 05 December 2023
About this release
This release by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) provides a quarterly update, as at 30 September 2023. 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 either as headcount (actual number of staff) or whole time equivalent (WTE) which adjusts the headcount to take account of part time working.
This release also includes data on the number of dentists working in Scotland, on student nurses and the pharmacy workforce.
For the first time, NES are reporting the number of staff who are employed in the new National Treatment Centres currently operating in four NHS Boards. This section is being released as Official statistics in development.
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 release of this publication will be 5 March 2024.
Publications prior to 3 December 2019 can be accessed via the ISD Workforce publication page.