NHS Board Projected staff in Post changes for 2015/16

7. Further information

The data above, and below in Appendix 1, contribute towards the Scottish Government's analysis of NHS board's workforce plans. Each NHS board will publish their respective workforce plan by the end of August 2015.

All staff group definitions in this publication match the ISD Scotland national statistics publication on NHSScotland workforce definitions.

The next three publications ISD Scotland are due to release on NHSScotland's workforce are on the following dates:

• 1 September 2015 (workforce as at 30 June 2015);
• 1 December 2015 (workforce as at 30 September 2015); and
• 1 March 2016 (workforce as at 31 December 2015).

Please see the link to ISD Scotland's publications in section 8 Useful Links.

There is also a Scottish Government workforce publication on the progress towards the 25% reduction in senior management posts target as at 31 March 2015. This is also due for release on 25 August 2015. Please note that the senior management definition within this national target is different from the management (non AfC) figure used in both the ISD national statistics publication on NHSScotland workforce, and the Scottish Government publication on NHS workforce projections.

Follow the link to the publication in section 8 Useful Links for an explanation of these differences.