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APPENDIX 4: STAFFING AND WORKLOADS OF SCOTTISH CLINICAL GENETICS SERVICES
Centre | Population served (million*) | New appts attended in 2001 | New appts/ million | Cons WTE | Genetic counsellors WTE | Other support staff WTE |
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Aberdeen | 0.802 | 912 | 1137 | 1.7$ | 2.8 | 2 |
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Dundee | 0.425** | 571 | 1334 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 1 |
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Edinburgh | 1.2** | 1400 | 1166 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 3.5 |
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Glasgow | 2.637 | 2634 | 998 | 4.5 | 6 3 | 5 |
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Scotland | 5.064 | 5517 | 1089 | 10.1 | 15.2 | 10 |
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*30/6/2001 estimated population figures General Register Office for Scotland
**Fife population shared between Dundee and Edinburgh for this analysis
$Aberdeen also has 1.5 WTESAS posts (no equivalent posts in other centres and no national guidelines on SAS numbers)
Academic honorary consultants are included in the WTE figures with actual values of 0.7 WTE Aberdeen, 0.5 WTE Dundee, 0.4 WTE Edinburgh and 0.9 WTE Glasgow.
Clinical genetics consultants required for Scotland using the 2005 National Professional Workforce Guidelines, endorsed by the Clinical Genetics Society and the British Society for Human Genetics (4 per million with a referral rate of 800 new patients per million per year) 20.26 WTE giving a shortfall of 10.15 WTE (£1.016m)
Genetic Counsellors required for Scotland using the 2005 National Professional Workforce Guidelines, endorsed by the Clinical Genetics Society and the British Society for Human Genetics (8 per million with a referral rate of 800 new patients per million per year) 40.5 WTE giving a shortfall of 25.3 WTE (£0.759m)
Other support staff (one secretary per consultant and two genetic counsellors, one data officer per centre, one genetics register person per centre, and 0.5 appointments clerk per million population served). This gives a need for 30.5 WTE support staff (on the basis of the 2005 guidelines for consultants and genetics counsellors) which is a shortfall of 20.5 WTE (£0.41m).
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