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NHS hospital and community staff (HCHS)

  • Last modified date:
    1 June 2007

This area covers the major parts of the NHS workforce outside general practice. The latest summary figures and definitions of hospital and community staffing are provided by the the Information Centre for Health and Social Care in their publication "Staff in the NHS 2005".

Separate sources give more detailed figures on medical and dental workforce including hospital consultants and other grades, public health doctors and dental consultants and non-medical staff (nurses, midwives, therapists and scientists). These groups relate to the main statistics, which are collected via annual workforce census. Information is also presented on vacancy surveys.

NHS Staff 1995 - 2005

NHS medical and dental workforce

Note that this information is now collected and published by the Information Centre for health and social care (IC). All data published from October 2005 onwards will be published on the IC website

Hospital, public health medicine (PHM) and community health service (CHS) medical and dental workforce statistics for England: Detailed results

Hospital, public health medicine (PHM) and community health service (CHS) medical and dental workforce statistics for England: 1975 - 2002
The downloadable Excel 97 files provide a "snapshot" of medical and dental staff employed by the NHS in the HCHS sector at 30 September for every year from 1975 to 2002. The most common breakdowns, where available, are by grade, gender, speciality, contract (full or part-time), country of qualification, ethnicity, region and age.

All NHS doctors at a glance
As just a small part of the Department's Statistics Division, we only collect statistics about doctors and dentists in the Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS). All of the detailed statistics on these pages relate to HCHS doctors and HCHS dentists. Other colleagues collect statistics for GPs. However, we sometimes receive requests about all NHS doctors, which includes HCHS doctors, HCHS dentists and GPs. The table below provides a summary headcount of all NHS doctors in England from 1975 to 2001. If you require anything more detailed, please contact us and we will try to help or put you in touch with the right person as appropriate.

Explanations
The information on this page gives a brief overview of how the data are collected, what data are available, background information and definitions.

Contacting the medical and dental workforce statistics section
If you require further information about the HCHS medical and dental workforce, or have any comments on this site, contact us at the address below. Please note that some data requests may be subject to a charge.

Naomi Sang,
Information Centre for health and social care,
1 Trevelyan Square
Boar Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS1 6AE
Tel: 0113 2547270
Fax: 0113 2547165
Email: mddata@ic.nhs.uk

Our charging policy
We follow the Department of Health charging policy. We therefore reserve the right to charge for all requests for data that cannot be found on these pages. For such requests, the first hour of work is free, but each subsequent hour or part hour is charged at £20. Some organisations are exempt from charges or qualify for a 50% reduction. Please contact us for further details.

NHS hospital and community health services non-medical staff in England

The tables provide a detailed 'snapshot' of non-medical staff directly employed by the NHS HCHS at 30 September.

NHS vacancy survey

All NHS Trusts in England were included in the survey, which asked for vacancies that trusts had been actively trying to fill which had lasted for three months or more as at 31 March.

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