Consultant posts in Trauma and Orthopaedics: FOI release

Information requested

1. Total number of staffed Consultant posts in Trauma and Orthopaedics over last 5 years

2. The annual increase in number of posts in same period

3. The number of vacant posts

4. The numbers Consultants in each decade of life

5. The average age of retiral over the last 5 years

6. The numbers in each SPPA pension contract group with pensionable age

7. The waiting time for hip and knee replacements in each hospital unit

8. The total numbers waiting and the rate of replacement per annum

9. The numbers of trainees in each ST cohort and total number of trainees

10. The proportion of trainees who were not domiciled in Scotland on appointment Or the University of their primary MB ChB degree

11. The number of ST8 trainees who leave Scotland annually

Response

This is a formal notice that under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. I have however enclosed most of the information you have requested, as noted below.

1/2. Official NHS data on Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery consultants is set out here.

Trauma and Orthopaedics consultants (WTE)	Sep-16	Sep-17	Sep-18	Sep-19	Sep-20	Sep-21
Staff in post	245.3	249.1	254.4	251.4	258.1	275.4
Establishment	254.3	259.1	261.4	267.2	266.3	286.8
Yearly establishment +/-	11.6	4.8	2.3	5.8	-0.9	20.5

[Source: NHS Education for Scotland Workforce Statistics at September 2021, published December 2021]

3. At September 2021, there are 11.4 WTE Trauma and Orthopaedics Surgery consultant vacancies.[Source: NHS Education for Scotland Workforce Statistics at September 2021, published December 2021]

4. NHS Education for Scotland publish age profile data for the NHS medical and dental workforce yearly at June. This is broken down by five year intervals and does not specify job role. The available information on medical and dental staff age ranges is accessible in the ‘Age Profile’ tab via the following link: Medical and Dental | Turas Data Intelligence (nhs.scot)

5/6. Data on staff leaving posts held by NHS Education for Scotland and pension data held by the Scottish Public Pensions Agency does not distinguish between job roles. This information is therefore not available.

7/8. Information as requested is not available. Related data on waiting lists and completed procedures is available here:

Data on the number of patients waiting for an orthopaedic surgery at the end of each quarter by health board of treatment is available here: https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/10942/ipdc_nov21.xlsx

Data on the number of hip and knee procedures carried out each year by health board of treatment is available here: https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/9294/table-7-procedures.xlsx

9. This data, obtained from NHS Education for Scotland, is attached.

10. Data will be publicly available around trainees who have applied from the UK on the specialty training website later this year. This will not be broken down by detail of how many applicants are specifically from Scotland.

Therefore figures have been provided, obtained from NHS Education for Scotland, on trainees with a primary medical qualification that had been obtained in Scotland who started in programme from the past 3 years.

Year	Total number of trainees new to a programme	Total number of trainees who obtained their primary medical qualification in Scotland	Number of trainees who did not disclose their country of primary medical qualification
2021	3173	1930 (60.82%)	178
2020	3064	1817 (59.30%)	343
2019	2943	1793 (60.92%)	878

Please note, this is not a mandatory field for completion and there are a number of trainees who have not stated where their primary medical qualification was obtained. As a result, the figures and percentages included in the above table may be skewed.

11. This information is not available.

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