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Publication, Part of Healthcare Workforce Statistics
Healthcare Workforce Statistics, England, 2015, Experimental Statistics
Official statistics, Experimental statistics- Publication Date:
- 2 Sep 2015
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Country, Primary Care Organisations, GP practices, Dental practices, Pharmacies and clinics, Regions
- Date Range:
- Snapshot on 31 Mar 2015
Summary
A national summary of results for those parts of the Healthcare workforce that are currently collected within the workforce Minimum Dataset (wMDS) as at 31 March 2015, giving national level statistics for each area covering Hospital and Community Services (Medical and Dental staff; and Non-medical staff); General and Personal Medical Services; and Independent Sector Healthcare Providers.
The publication focusses on more detailed statistics covering General and Personal Medical Services. Accompanying this publication you will find Excel tables, CSV files and a Practice Level Indicator Tool to enable users to complete their own analysis.
Highlights
In an NHS with an increasingly diverse range of providers, collecting comprehensive workforce information will become ever more difficult. In order to address this, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 places a duty on all organisations that deliver care funded by the NHS to provide data on their current workforce and to share their anticipated future workforce needs.
The Workforce Information Architecture (WIA) workstream was established in 2011 by the Department of Health (DH) as part of the wider reform of Education and Training. Within this workstream there was requirement to develop a workforce Minimum Data Set (wMDS), to support high quality education and training commissioning. This work seeks to ensure that with refinement the minimum data set remains suitable for the purpose of collecting workforce information from all providers of Healthcare services. The wMDS meets the requirements of workforce planners and will enable them to effectively plan and commission the future qualified workforce to meet the needs of local providers.
This publication is based on the results of the first wMDS collection as at 31 March 2015. As a new collection its results must be further understood, as such these statistics are experimental and subject to change. More information on the quality of the information gathered in this wMDS collection can be found in the Data Quality section of the publication pdf. Key facts about the current healthcare workforce in England can be found in the Executive Summary.
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