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Scottish Health Workforce Plan - 2004 Baseline
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Working for Health - The Workforce Development Action Plan for NHS Scotland, August 2002
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Note: in the medical workforce in particular, recent reductions in working hours mean that long-term comparisons of the contribution of staff in terms of WTE have to be made with care.
3 Survey of all non-training medical staff in NHS Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland.
4 Traditionally WTE is used to measure capacity; changes in contracted hours supports this alternative approach. In the future refinements for worked hours will be possible.
5 Data are sourced from Trust Position Statements for 2000 and 2003. Contracted hours at 72 is the basis of weekly hours per training doctor for 1993. New Deal monitoring began in 2000, hence no data are available prior to this date.
6 Doctors-in-Training are Pre Registration and Senior House Officers and the Registrar Group.
7 The Registrar Group includes Registrars, Senior Registrars and Specialist Registrars.
8 Clinical Support Staff are defined as unregistered Nursing and Midwifery Staff.
9 Clinical Support Staff are defined as unregistered or unqualified nursing and midwifery staff.
10 Data source is Information & Statistics Division, CSA.
11 Partnership Agreement for registered nursing and midwifery staff is 12,000 recruits by 2007. This analysis quantifies the resulting increase in headcount by estimating the cumulative net effect of joiners and leavers, 4,300 in 2009.
12 Health care clinical support taff are defined as nursing and midwifery unregistered staff and scientific and professional unqualified staff.
13 The skill groups have been defined as: consultant and non-consultant career grade, registered nursing and midwifery, scientific and professional qualified, and health care clinical support (HCCS)). This analysis excludes all trainees: nursing and midwifery, medical, and scientific and professional.
14 Partnership for care: Scotlands Health White Paper (2003)
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