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Publication, Part of NHS workforce statistics
NHS Workforce Statistics - December 2016, Provisional statistics
Official statistics- Publication Date:
- 29 Mar 2017
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Hospital and Community Health Services, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Regions
- Date Range:
- 30 Sep 2009 to 31 Dec 2016
Summary
This report shows provisional monthly numbers of NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) staff groups working in Trusts and CCGs in England (excluding primary care staff). Data is available as headcount and full-time equivalents.
This data is an accurate summary of the validated data extracted from the NHS's HR and Payroll system. It has a provisional status as the data may change slightly over time where trusts make updates to their live operational systems.
In addition to the regular monthly reports there are a series of quarterly reports (first published on 26 July 2016 looking at the data for March 2016) which include statistics on staff in Trusts and CCGs and information for NHS Support Organisations and Central Bodies.
The quarterly analysis will be published each;
September (showing June statistics)
December (showing September statistics)
March (showing December statistics)
June (showing March statistics).
Note: From March 2017 these quarterly reports will also include statistics on;
i) Bank staff employed directly by trusts and paid through the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) pay and human resources system (as covered by our consultation on NHS workforce statistics). They are exploratory and experimental statistics.
ii) The nationality of staff (previously published every six months) showing quarterly figures from September 2015 onwards.
CSV data is available for every month back to September 2009 within the March 2016 report. Due to their size they are broken down into several files. A link to the March 2016 data is given in the 'Related Links' section below.
Please note, additional healthcare workforce data relating to GPs and Independent Sector workforce are also available (for September 2016), links to this data are available below. Also published at the same time as this report is provisional GP data as at December 2016, a link to this data is provided below.
We welcome feedback on the methodology and tables within this publication. Please email us with your comments and suggestions, clearly stating Monthly HCHS Workforce as the subject heading, via [email protected] or 0300 303 5678.
Highlights
In December 2016:
- the headcount was 1,177,369 in December 2016. This is 6,124 (0.5 per cent) less than the previous month (1,183,493) and 20,707 (1.8 per cent) more than in December 2015 (1,156,662)
- the full time equivalent (FTE) total was 1,039,065 in December 2016. This is 5,410 (0.5 per cent) less than the previous month (1,044,475) and 19,388 (1.9 per cent) more than in December 2015 (1,019,677)
- professionally qualified staff make up over half (54.3 per cent) of the HCHS workforce (based on FTE)
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