NHS Board projected staff in post changes for 2019-2020

5. Further information

The data in section 3 and 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 2019.

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

The publication of NHSScotland's workforce statistics is currently in transition from ISD Scotland to NHS Education for Scotland (NES). The next three publications are due to be released on the following dates:

• 3 September 2019 (workforce as at 30 June 2019) ISD;
• 3 December 2019 (workforce as at 30 September 2019) NES/ISD; and
• 4 March 2020 (workforce as at 31 December 2019) NES/ISD.

http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/

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 NHSScotland workforce projections.

Follow the link to the publication for an explanation of these differences.

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/08/9870

Part 1 of the National Health and Social Care Workforce Plan was published in June 2017 and sets out how the Scottish Government will work with partners to secure sustainable NHS staffing.

https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/06/1354/0

Part 2 of the Plan, published jointly with COSLA was published in December 2017 and introduces a framework for improving workforce planning for social care in Scotland.

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/12/2984

Part 3 of the Plan was published in April 2018 and sets out our strategy to recruit new and retain existing GPs, along with our plans for the wider primary care workforce.

/publications/national-health-social-care-workforce-plan-part-3-improving-workforce/

The next iteration of this work is the production of a fully integrated health and social care workforce plan, which will be published later this year.

A new National Health and Social Care Workforce Planning Programme Board, has been established to support implementation of the recommendations arising from the 3 parts of the Plan already published.

This approach will enable different workforce planning systems to take stock, and move forward incrementally towards improved integrated planning across the full Health and Social Care landscape.

For further information please contact:

wpf@gov.scot in the first instance. Or:

Ana Rodriguez

Scottish Government
Health and Social Care Analysis
Email: Ana.Rodriguez@gov.scot
Tel: 0131 244 2414

Nyla Shah

Scottish Government
Workforce Planning Policy
Email: Nyla.Shah@gov.scot
Tel: 0131 244 4825