NHS Staff
Scottish Parliament Written answers, 3 November 2009
Dr Richard Simpson (Labour) | Question S3W-28102
To ask the Scottish Executive how many junior doctors or full-time equivalents were employed by the NHS on 1 August 2009.
Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National Party)
Information on junior doctors as at 1 August 2009 is not centrally available. NHS Scotland staff in post information is collected annually through a census as at 30 September. The relevant figures for 2008 are shown in the following table:
| Doctors in Training1 | 30 September 2008 |
| Head Count | 5,987 |
| Whole-Time Equivalent (WTE) | 5,833.9 |
Source: Information services Division (ISD) Scotland.
Note: 1. Doctors in training include the following: specialist registrars, staff on specialty training and fixed-term specialty training grades, foundation programme grades, house officers, senior house officers, dental officers and senior dental officers and GP trainees.
Information as at 30 September 2009 will be published on 15 December 2009